These Rituals praise the Past Anna Novikova, prof. HSE

}  The show opening and closing of the Olympic Games in Sochi and the World Cup in Brazil

}  165 subjects of evening edition of "Time", "The First Channel". (selection to search for words "World Cup in Brazil.“)

(General Search26/11/2009 – 18/09/2015) }  12 stories about Brazil

}  Arne Martin Klausen (1999) Olimpic Gamesas Performance and Public Event The Caseofthe XVII Winter Olympic Gamesin Norway.

}  Richard Giulianott (2015)«Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of

Sport» }  Vsevolod Meyerhold ( 2014) On Theatre }  JE Bowlt (1976) Russian art of the avant-garde: theory and criticism,

1902-1934

}  J. Meyrowitz (2005) The Rise of Glocality: New Senses of Place and Identity in the Global Village

}  D.Dayan, E. Katz (1992). Media events: the live broadcasting of history.

}  World Cup in Brazil is not "ritual praise of our time." It is a ritual of praise archaic. Which could become modern.

}  Producers of the First Russian TV channel used for the construction of sports events of national mythology based on idealization of the past.

}  A sports show in other countries tend to be interpreted through the construction of the myth of modernity.