The Putin regime is a type of authoritarian regime in which a charismatic leader seeks to rely not on the elite and, accordingly, not on mutually binding agreements with its various parts, but directly on the broad masses of the people.

The director of the Russian Institute of History of Arts was dismissed. The Ministry of Culture completed the process of changing the leaders of his scientific institutions. The last director of the heads of scientific institutions of the Ministry of Culture was removed. Tatyana Klyavina lasted the directorship poster than the rest: Dmitry Trubochkin, Kirill Razlogov, Yuri Vedenina was removed much earlier.

To replenish the list of architectural nightmares of the same name promises the construction of a 25-meter medical center behind the Kvarengi-the main building of the Mariinsky hospital. The tasks of preservation and development are again trying to push their foreheads. Who would argue - city clinics need modernization. But the declarations for the achievement of European standards in healthcare are not able to justify the barbaric attitude to cultural heritage demonstrated at the same time.

A unique organ that survived the revolution and two world wars, surviving fires, bombings and floods, may die due to the showdown at the Tsarskoye Selo gymnasium. There are ten pre-revolutionary organs left in Russia, two of them created by Wilhelm Sauer, a master of the Romantic era. 39 of his other creations, once brought to our country, disappeared without a trace. Big school The organ W. SAUER ORGEL OPUS 432, originally a church organ, worked at the conservatory in the last century.