Culture

• 19 April, 09:00 ''An intellectual gives voice to people who have no voice'' Sociologist Aleksandrina Vanke about who can be called an intellectual today and why the knowledge that they produce is important to society
• 15 April, 09:00 Albina Shagimuratova: ''Could I say 'no' to Gergiyev?'' The M. Glinka International Competition of Vocalists opens in Kazan
• 11 April, 09:00 Irada Ayupova: ''Glinka Contest has returned to Kazan'' A record number of participants after a five-year break

• 17 April, 09:00 Parterre closed, audience – to the balcony! The second round of the M. Glinka competition is taking place in the S. Saydashev State Big Concert Hall
• 11 April, 09:00 Reduced Cyprus, cancelled Rhodes: where tour operators invite with departure from Kazan Egypt and China will compete with Turkey on the May holidays, the 'all-Russian health resort'' will be out of competition in summer
• 10 April, 09:00 ''Our ancestor's spirits will not be satisfied with us'': what's wrong with Kul Sharif Mosque? ''The main mosque of Tatarstan'' and its shortcomings

• 09 April, 09:00 2019 Rakhlin Seasons: Mahler first A festival to the memory of maestro Natan Rakhlin opens in Kazan
• 04 April, 09:00 Mikhail Piotrovsky: ''Memory wars should turn into dialogues of cultures'' A jubilee exhibition opens in the Hermitage-Kazan Centre
• 02 April, 09:00 Dialogues in free space The Tatarstan Gallery of Contemporary Art presents a series of exhibitions to citizens of Kazan

• 08 April, 09:00 ''Who send them to die without hesitation?'' A theatre from Hannover brought a staging of Remarque’s novel to Kazan
• 03 April, 09:00 2019 Kazan Film Festival: almost six months earlier but without main star This time the film festival will be in April
• 01 April, 09:00 ''It’s a kind of popular art, awful. It kills the building's image!'' Farida Zabirova complained about tastes of the Tatarstan hinterland that can't yield to investors' charm and gets rid of valuable architectural facilities