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Comrades, reporting from the artist's studio, I can announce that Lyokha Kyoujay and I have tallied the results of the competition to finish the comic

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Comrades, reporting from the artist's studio, I can announce that Lyokha Kyoujay and I have tallied the results of the competition to finish the comic

Comrades, reporting from the artist's studio, I can announce that Lyokha Kyoujay and I have tallied the results of the competition to finish the comic. The winner is Dmitry V., who guessed, quite literally, how it all really happened. As promised, the holder of first place will receive

By Alexandr Radayev

Coming Up · Society

Following on from the day before yesterday's subject: the results of the first competition for the distribution of funds to cultural projects have yet to be tallied, and already it is time to submit applications for the next

The intake of applications for the next competition of the cultural initiatives fund opens on 1 November. There is time until 20 January: this time, in view of the earlier frenzy, the application window has been lengthened. The results of the first competition are promised as early as tomorrow. A

By Alexandr Radayev
I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar

Coming Up · Observations · Education · Humour

I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar

I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar. And now, who would have thought it, we may meet again after so many years: I see him among the

By Alexandr Radayev

Coming Up · Moscow · Observations

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September. Readings of plays are held at the Sovremennik Theatre; admission is free, by registration, which opens the day before each event, and

By Alexandr Radayev
To give strength to the weak and cast the mighty into nothingness, To take happiness from the happy, to raise the obscure suddenly to greatness, To straighten a bent frame or bend the back of the proud -

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations

To give strength to the weak and cast the mighty into nothingness, To take happiness from the happy, to raise the obscure suddenly to greatness, To straighten a bent frame or bend the back of the proud -

Easy work for a pentatroch. Alexander Kutovoy has created an entire universe and, with the becoming sentiments of a creator, has presented a large solo exhibition project, Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly. The laboratory of a maker of universes might look just so: the already famous Pegasus against a glowing

By Alexandr Radayev
Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal

Coming Up · Books · Observations

Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal

Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal. On the stand I see not only the classics and editions devoted to Dostoevsky, but also a good deal of ordinary

By Alexandr Radayev
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