American culturologist about what laws modern show business works His most famous book, Nobrow-about the new situation in pop culture: the differences between the high and low, talented and mediocre were erased, only one criterion remained-fashionable, popular and popular. The recently published “song of the songs” continues the topic, analyzing what kind of terms success is from and what the mysterious mechanism creates hits that we listen to every day.

How Siberian fights with the Caucasian Middle Ages, investigating the murder of her brother Photo: Olga Bobrova/ "New Gazeta" When I saw her for the first time, she did not look at me at all. It was winter. On it, as I remember, was a short leather jacket, broken with fur, heels, on the head-a striped scarf, a strip, like a rim, conditionally denoting respect for tradition. Fast eyes, red -haired mowing, in elegant movements - the confidence of a mature woman who knows her price.

The composition of the new cabinet of ministers is named. This planned procedure due to scandals turned into an event Photo: Reuters In the evening on Wednesday, June 21, the composition of the new Cabinet of Ministers of France is called. Due to the financial scandals, which have led to the fact that over the past three days, 4 ministers have resigned, an ordinary procedure (which is usually carried out after the parliamentary elections), has turned into an event.

The director of St. Isaac's Cathedral, Yuri Mudrov, does not consider the topic of transferring the cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church worthy of a referendum. He told RBC about this. According to Mudrov, the referendum will not allow reflecting public opinion in full. “The street and rallies will not solve this issue, because if a referendum is held on any occasion, I believe that this is an unproductive path of development. Now we need to let us work quietly, ”said Mudrov.

"Yabloko" nevertheless nominated Roizman to the Sverdlovsk governors Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS The Yabloko party nominated the Yekaterinburg mayor of Yevgeny Roizman as a candidate for governors of the Sverdlovsk region at a meeting of the bureau in Moscow.

Magomed Omarov, a 27-year-old native of Dagestan, disappeared in Moscow on June 5 under unclear circumstances, Magomedshamil Shabanov, a lawyer at the Presumption Bar Association, told Novaya Gazeta. Omarov's mother thinks that her son was kidnapped by law enforcement officers. The lawyer said that on that day Omarov met with a certain Maksud Kadrshaev. He followed him in his car to Balashikha, from there they went together to the imam of one of the Moscow mosques.

Director Oliver Stone commented on the information that the video footage of the operation in Syria shown to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin was a recording of an American air attack in Afghanistan. “Why would he (Putin – ed .) lie? Russia has been successful in damaging the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - ed.), they have bombed Syria to hell, and they have destroyed the financial ability of the IS empire to ship oil to Turkey. I think that's the point.

The authorities of Moscow are increasingly refusing citizens in the right to get social housing Photo: Daria Burlakova The history of litigation of a large family of Tatyana Company began in January 2013. Then the Muscovite Tatyana received a gift room in a communal room in the city center, where she moved with her husband and three children.

The All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) announced the disqualification of three Russian runners Inga Abitova, Anastasia Kapachinskaya and Denis Alekseev for violating the anti-doping rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). According to the ARAF, after rechecking doping samples from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, athletes were found to have dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, and Kapachinskaya was also found to have stanozolol.

The parents of Zhanna Friske appealed the decision of the Perovsky Court of Moscow on the suit of the charitable organization Rusfond to recover 21.6 million rubles from the singer's relatives. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the court. The date of consideration of the complaint in the Moscow City Court is still unknown. In May, Friske's common-law husband Dmitry Shepelev announced his intention to appeal the court's decision on his Instagram.

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A repeated forensic medical examination confirmed the presence of a high dose of alcohol in the body of a 6-year-old boy who was hit to death in the Moscow region. It is reported by Interfax, citing a source. “The results of the re-examination of the blood of the deceased child clearly indicate that the test and control samples belong to him, and they contain a significant amount of alcohol,” he said.

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya told RBC that parishioners who watched the film "Matilda" by Alexei Uchitel at private screenings were excommunicated from Holy Communion for six months in churches and monasteries. “This film is recognized by the church as a blasphemy against the holy spirit,” the deputy said. According to her, she is also not going to watch "Matilda" in the parliamentary club in the State Duma.

Deputies of the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod unanimously elected a new head of the city, Elizaveta Solonchenko became her, reports . Interfax According to the agency, after leaving the post of head of Nizhny Novgorod, Ivan Karnilin, Solonchenko worked in the status of acting. Yevgeny Lazarev, a deputy from the Communist Party faction, became an alternative self-nominated candidate; he did not receive a single goal.

The State Duma in the third, final reading adopted a bill that expands the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSO). According to RBC, the wording of the law makes it possible to classify information about the property of officials. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in February by President Vladimir Putin. The document gives the FSO the authority to ensure the protection of personal data of persons under state protection.