London · Monarchies · Education · Society
Yesterday, at the opening of the parliamentary session, Queen Elizabeth mentioned in her speech a bill on the protection of free speech in connection with the rise of "cancel culture", owing to which many people have lost the ability to speak out, in particular on university campuses, on
Architecture · Moscow · Society · Society Pages
Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front. The Vakhtangov Theatre building was destroyed at the very beginning of the war, and dozens of the theatre's actors did not
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Society
The KMA: this business must be pursued with the utmost energy. Such is the mention of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly on the pedestal of the monument to Lenin in the central square of the city of Zheleznogorsk in Kursk Oblast, beside one of the largest iron-ore open-pit mines
Art · Museums · Observations · Society
Meanwhile, in Zheleznogorsk, a town of a hundred thousand in the Kursk region, the Tsikoriy (“Chicory”) Centre for Contemporary Art has opened. The governor himself came to the opening, no less. The centre was launched with the support of Garage. The atmosphere at the opening was very warm and inspiring:
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · People
And last year, in fact, the actors of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre wrote an appeal to Putin for Tatyana Doronina's return as artistic director. And now she is once again at the helm of the theatre. I do not know what the theatrical community makes of it,
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
At a meeting of activists and conservationists held as part of the banner exhibition "Stained Glass of Saint Petersburg. Losses. Protection. Rescue" in Saint Petersburg, the burning question "How can a concerned citizen protect the architectural decoration of historic buildings?" was discussed, and a set of
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions of Russia's wealthy.
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In the Press · Interviews · Society · People
I am a Kievan. And Chernobyl came into my life at the very moment it happened, on 26 April. More precisely, on the morning of the 27th. I was on my way to work on the metro, as usual. I still remember the name of the station, Arsenalna, where I
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"...When Vladimir Ulyanov wished to enter Kazan University, he turned to my father for help. My father wrote a letter in which he recommended Vladimir Ulyanov as a model pupil. - That was a bold step on the part of your father, an imperial official, to give a letter of
Museums · Society · Nature
The Khmelita Museum-Reserve is using its Instagram to urge people not to burn dry grass. A grass fire is a terrible wound to nature and a disaster for many living creatures. When grass is set alight by these ill-starred gardeners, leverets, born in April, perish, along with birds&
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
The Garage Museum has waived admission fees on Patron's Day, 13 April. The promise is that the initiative will be annual, in honour of Philanthropist's Day. On that day one may enter the museum by making any donation one finds comfortable to the Garage Endowment Fund.