The Slovenian philosopher Slava Zizhek spoke at the Petersburg conference “Revolution 1917/2017, the communist heritage and ghosts of the future” of the European University. How “enlightened cynicism” has become the main ideology of youth than cartoons, video games and tough pornography are similar, why do states sometimes act than civil society, and thanks to which the series became the most influential art of our time?

Pavel Shvets, assistant to the deputy of the Zaksa Oksana Dmitrieva, asked the administration of the Frunzensky district to check the reports of illegal markets in Kupchin. In response, officials sent a photograph in which it is impossible to make out anything. About this writes Mr7.ru. Pavel Shvets , assistant deputy of Zaksa Oksana Dmitrieva: - It looks like a mockery. Technologies have gone far ahead, now every citizen can send an appeal to any authority through a computer.

Actor Kevin Spacey published a statement on Twitter in which he spoke about his homosexuality. The reason for this was allegations of sexual harassment, which actor Anthony Rapp had previously announced . According to Rapp, when he was 14 years old, Kevin Spacey invited him to a party, got drunk and tried to seduce him. Spacey responded by saying that he was horrified by this story.

On Tuesday, October 31, on the anniversary of the crash of the A321 aircraft on Rumbolovskaya Gora in Vsevolozhsk, the Memorial "Garden of Memory" will be opened. This was reported in the Flight 9268. The “Memory Garden” is a corridor of slabs and metal structures with the names of all those who died in a plane crash. The opening of the memorial will take place at 14:00. In addition, on October 31, a memorial service for the dead will be held in the Trinity-Izmail Cathedral.

The store owner in the village of Russian-Vysotskoy Dmitry Skurikhin regularly hangs opposition slogans on the facade of his establishment. About this writes Activatica. According to the publication, the police periodically remove his posters, but Skurikhin hangs new ones. The slogans of Skurikhin are directed against the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, war and falsifications in the elections.

Do you distinguish the picture of the cord from Matisse, and the museum is from the yard with graffiti? Test for knowledge of contemporary art The yard on Petrogradskaya or the Street Art Museum, discarded furniture or installation, the picture of Stallone or the Warhol work, a performance on the palace or the action of ecologists? Go through the test “Paper” , published in partnership with Tele2 , and find out how well you understand the contemporary art of St. Petersburg.

Levashovskaya Pustosh is one of the largest cemeteries in St. Petersburg. In this place, men and women who died and were killed in Leningrad prisons in 1937–1954 are buried. According to the FSB, 19,450 people are buried in the wasteland. Their names are unknown and there are no lists. Until 1989, the cemetery remained a secret facility of the USSR KGB.

Since October 30, the Azerbaijani low -cost airline Buta Airways launched direct flights from Baku to St. Petersburg. According to Kommersant, planes will fly five times a week except Tuesday and Sunday. The minimum ticket price will be 29 euros one way. On the BUTA Airways website, tickets from St. Petersburg to Baku are available for dates from November 6. The ticket costs 104 euros. In mid -January, you can fly to Azerbaijan for 29 euros. Now from St.

The electronic reception of the State Duma did not accept the complaint of the Petersburger, as it mistakenly found in it an obscene word “hera”. This combination of letters in the letter was found only in the name of Marshal Blucher Avenue, the author of a complaint in the “Beautiful Petersburg” movement was told. "Paper" also tried to send a complaint with the mention of Marshal Blucher Avenue in the text of the letter. The receptionist mistakenly found obscene vocabulary in the letter.

Medusa published the story of an art critic and a specialist in the history of fashion and everyday life of Olga Khoroshilova about the photographs of two men who worked in the United State Political Administration (OGPU). Khoroshilova also talked about this photograph at the Campus, the Educational Festival of Paper . On the reverse side of the photo, a love message is written, presumably addressed to one of the men to another. The message dates from 1933.

The St. Petersburg activist Olga Mnishko created a folk online card of institutions of the Petrograd district. There are addresses and contacts of cafes, bars, cultural spaces and stores. All objects are divided into several categories. The card can complement everyone. At the same time, the institution must be a non -settle and proven user himself. There are already more than 100 objects on the map.

Hurricane “Herwart”, which fell upon Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, can reach Ukraine and Belarus, but is unlikely to reach St. Petersburg. This was told by Fontanka by the main weather forecaster of the city Alexander Kolesov. According to the weather forecaster, on Tuesday, October 31, in St. Petersburg you can wait for a “fresh wind”. But this is rather a passing cyclone.

Petersburg won the contest “The most reading region of Russia - 2017” and received the title of “Literary Flagship of Russia”. The awards presented the Russian Book Union. The competition was attended by 84 regions, which were supposed to submit the most significant literary project in the region for 2016-2017. The jury was also influenced by the development of the "Infrastructure of Book and Reading" in the region. Petersburg defeated the project "Great Book Ravolution - 2017".

In St. Petersburg, not far from the Baltic Station, the largest museum of railways in Russia has opened. Until the end of the winter holidays of 2018, the entrance there will be free, the press service of the city administration said . In the museum, you can see multimedia installations and unique steam locomotives and cars, some samples of which are preserved in one copy.

The artist Ulyana Poloz placed reproductions of famous picturesque paintings on the walls of St. Petersburg houses. The project is called OutingsprojectSPB, photographs of the drawings can be found on this tag on Instagram. In an interview with “Sobak.ru”, Ulyana said that she mainly places her work on the walls of old buildings with cracks and crumbling plaster. She prints reproductions of paintings on her home printer, glues them, and then covers them with varnish.