Filina's letter: Kirkorov became the father of HYPE, choreographer Miguel became the director

Lucy Chebotina became the singer of the year, and Philip Kirkorov became the father of HYPE according to the Voice Influencer Awards 2025. Fyodor Bondarchuk, Klim Shipenko, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Tina Kandelaki and other stars of the film industry congratulated Sergey Selyanov on the 33rd anniversary of STV. Alexander Rosenbaum presented the long-awaited musical "Waltz-Boston". And choreographer Miguel got ready to present his directorial debut in a feature film, the dance drama The Art of Falling. Izvestia — about the social events of last week.

Kirkorov, Chebotina, Zagitova at a private party at The Carlton

At the end of the summer, the stars of show business met on the roof of The Carlton Hotel, which offers one of the most picturesque views of the city - Red Square. On August 27, a private Voice Influencer Awards 2025 party was held there, the key event of which was the awarding of the main trendsetters according to the version of the award. Among the 17 laureates are Lucy Chebotina, who was awarded the statuette "Singer of the Year", Alina Zagitova (she was noted for developing her personal brand) and Philip Kirkorov, recognized as the "father of HYPE". For the public, the artist performed the song "I'll give you this life", which recently became viral on social networks in 2005.

The evening's dress code also took the audience back to that decade - it was dedicated to the nostalgia trend for the glamour of 2007 with its mini, fur vests and clamshell phones, which numerous star guests supported with interest.

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How did secular Moscow spend the last week

Stoyanov, Mikhalkova, Kutsenko at the Okko presentation

Okko online cinema was the first among its colleagues to hold a presentation of the new season. I did it on August 28 at Cinema Park Mosfilm, one of the few halls in the capital that can accommodate so many guests (more than 500 people). The main faces of the industry gathered. Marina Alexandrova, who has two high—profile projects in a few weeks - the drama "Breathe", which won the Pilot festival, and the TV series "Moscow does not believe in Tears", which had its secular premiere on September 3. And also Yuri Stoyanov, who was caressed by the attention of the press this evening, Karina Razumovskaya, whose return the audience is waiting for in the sequel to last year's hit "Highway", Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Alexandra Ursulyak, Gosha Kutsenko, Ilya Uchitel and many others.

Among the announcements is the continuation of the crime drama about gypsies "Shakespeare Street", Daria Moroz's project "Sex. Before and After" and the "Chikatilo" franchise. Among the new projects are Miguel's directorial debut in the feature film "The Art of Falling", which entered the competition of the upcoming "New Season" in Sochi, "How to Train a Fox" in the spirit of "The Highway", an adaptation of one of the most iconic Turkish TV series "Black Love" and "Noon" based on the Strugatsky science fiction novel.

Opening of the exhibition "Perception of Beauty"

On September 2, representatives of the art community met at Sistema Gallery at the opening day of the exhibition "Perception of Beauty" from the collection of collector Dmitry Kovalenko. It is held as part of the First Biennial of Private Collections. Among others, film director Egor Konchalovsky was noted at the opening.

The art manager Marina Loshak and the owner of the collection, which includes hundreds of works created mainly in the 1990s and 2000s, held the show. Among them is the art that was born in famous squats, as well as the works of classics of Moscow conceptualism and social art. Among the presented authors are Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Viktor Pivovarov and Sergey Mironenko. The exhibition also includes photographs by Boris Mikhailov and paper architecture by Yuri Avvakumov.

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How did secular Moscow spend the last week

Selyanov, Bondarchuk, Shipenko and others on the 33rd anniversary of STV

According to the old tradition, on September 3, the heroes of the gossip column met to turn over the calendar. The author of the project dedicated to the study of the Russian cultural code through customs and crafts, Elena Baranova invited the public to spend the summer with round dances and master classes on lacquer miniature and wreath weaving from wildflowers. Actresses Ekaterina Molokhovskaya and Ksenia Surkova tried on their own without delay.

And the first Thursday in autumn after a seasonal lull reminded us how intense the secular calendar can be. While jewelry designer Georgy Rushev was hosting guests in one of the restaurants on Petrovka Street, who presented his first bag to the fashionable public, fans of contemporary artists gathered in the Stella Art Foundation exhibition space in Moscow City. The exposition of St. Petersburg author Anastasia Klimova "Quasar Babylon" opened there, and the premiere of the musical "Quasar Babylon" thundered at the Moscow Variety Theater.Waltz-Boston" based on the songs of Alexander Rosenbaum.

The gathering place for the heavyweights of the film industry was the Sickle and Hammer Recreation Center, where one of the oldest film companies, STV, founded in 1992 by producer Sergei Selyanov and director Alexei Balabanov, celebrated its 33rd anniversary and presented dozens of iconic projects to the audience, including "Brother", "Sisters", "Boomer". The concentration of stars per square meter was off the scale — directors, actors, producers, screenwriters came to congratulate on a solid date: Fedor Bondarchuk, Tina and Leo Kandelaki, Victoria Tolstoganova, Valeria Guy Germanika, Alexander Yatsenko, Vladimir Kott and Alexander Kott, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Klim Shipenko, Janik Fayziev, Andrey Zolotarev, Philip Yankovsky and many others others. The audience tried to solve the mystery of the abbreviation STV and had small talk on industrial topics to the accompaniment of the FRUKTA band.