The octogenarian superstar of the Soviet stage Eduard Khil has final received due recognition in the West, albeit anonymously. The YouTube clip were he sings the wordless song “I’m very glad, because I’m finally returning home” is known outside of Russia as simply Trololo Man. However, the song has become a hit: the recording from the 1960s that was recently placed on YouTube has been viewed over 3 million times and received nearly 20,000 comments, and largely from an English-speaking audience. Another 15,000 have signed a petition requesting that “Mister Trololo” go on a worldwide tour. ...
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Valentin Yanin is one of the most renowned and recognized Russian academics. A specialist in the history of medieval Novgorod, Russian numismatics and sphragistics, he considered an undisputed authority throughout the world. Yanin recently received the Alexander Solzhenitsyn literary award for “his archeological and historical discoveries, which have transformed our understanding of early history and Ancient Rus.” This is the first time that this award has gone to a historian. The official award ceremony will take place on April 21.
– You have received the Solzhenitsyn Award “for archeological and...
Among the hundred of thousand of Russian who did not see a place for themselves in Russia following the Revolution there were people of a wide variety upbringings and social origins: generals and enlisted men, royalty and peasants, writers, academics, artists, journalists and politicians. And among them were also opera singers who did not what to remain under the Bolshevik regime, including those who had already managed to make a name for themselves: Kuznetsova, Ermolenko-Yuzhina, Lipovskaya, Koshits, Sadoven, Davidova, Yakovleva, Mozhukhin and Sibiryakov, among others. In 1921 they were joined by Fedor Shalyapin, who went on...
Forty years ago IBM presented a prototype of the first floppy disc. The mass production of these disks in the West would come later, but in the USSR this event was seen as no more significant than two meteorites colliding in the Kuiper Belt. However, it is now clear that there is something to think about here: this clumsy eight-inch innovation by IBM’s specialists provided everyone, including residents of the USSR, a new level of freedom, the possibilities of which we could not even begin to imagine.
Of course the floppy disc in 1970 was a sort of Homo habilis of its species. The first eight-inch discs could hold...
The report The Moral Foundation of Modernization, published on the website of the Institute for Development of a Modern Ideology, has received largely negative reviews in Russian mass media. In recent times much concerning the role of the Orthodox Church has received such a reaction. The report, in part, suggests, “successful implementation of systemic reforms, development of corporate culture and growth in national prosperity are directly tied to the preservation of a society’s values foundation. In Russia this foundation lies in Orthodox ethics, an unalienable part of which are patriotism, community and...
A new scandal has appeared in Russia’s mass media – public discussion of an internal document of the United Russia party which proposes “Orthodoxy as a moral foundation for modernization”. The authors of the report The Moral Foundation of Modernization, prepared by the National Institute for Development of a Modern Ideology, indicates that the motivation for this is “the objective need for a state ideology”, which is stipulated by the fact that people in the country “cannot feel psychologically comfortable in the absence or diffuseness of a political mythology”. And, in essence, it...