All three main literary summer premieres turned out to be, alas, disappointments. Yoda , Persian and the Writer have nothing in common, except that their authors are wonderful writers. All three. Without fools. Why do we love Andrei Rubanov? He is not a stylist, like Shishkin, like Ichevsky, not a master of an invigar plot, and as for smart thoughts, it is not a shallow, of course, but, frankly, not Heidegger. But then he had something that none of our contemporary writers had a real hero.

Last weekend, the government of the country has posted on the Internet the draft law “On the Police”. The document caused violent disputes and collected almost 2.5 thousand comments in two days, most of which are not so much in essence as in form. In particular, they offer to reconsider the formulations of some articles and clarifications in order to avoid double interpretation. Visitors to the site offer some norms to supplement and expand, while others can exclude at all.

The lobby of the Perm Academic Theater Theater was unlikely to once accept a similar audience: on Friday, August 6, hundreds of fans of Sergei Shnurov gathered here. The musician, along with his group, “Ruble” launched the project “ MUZ-TT ”. In the theater, in this way they launched a concert-club platform, it will work on weekends. Until the end of August, two more hipster teams will show here - Tesla Boy and Cheese People .

Last Friday, August 6, in Perm they beat a man who looked like a rapper Syava (Vyacheslav Khakhalkin). The incident occurred at the Perm Academic Theater-Theater, where Sergey Shnurov and the ruble group took place as part of the Muz-TT project. Syava and his comrade jumped out onto the stage, began to jump, dance the knee, show the penis and - the most outrageous - the rocker goat. For which he was beaten.

Professor of the Department of Ethics, aesthetics, theory and history of the culture of the Ural State University Tatyana Kruglova lectures on complex relations of art and modernization, relying on the example of modern Russian cinema. Throughout, it turns out that either with modernization we have something wrong, or with modern art. “The word“ modernization ”we hear constantly. This is the essence of the modernity in which we live.