Publications
Sergey Loban’s film Chapiteau Show that elicited a very good response at the last Moscow international film festival has been released into wide distribution. The director himself described the movie as “the film for broken hearts and a remedy for stress,” and also as the second volume of The Dead Souls – an allusion to his previous movie The Dust with a ridiculously small budget.
Chapiteau Show is an almost four-hour production comprised of four cine novellas with the same place of action and some common characters, though each is a complete film in its own right. No wonder the movie is released for distribution as...
The Student’s Day celebrated on January 25 appeared in Russia back in the 19th century when Nicholas I decided to celebrate the decision to open the Moscow University on January 25, 1755 as the Student’s Day. In 2006 Tatiana’s Day was proclaimed the Day of Russian Students and a national holiday, even though it remained a business day – perhaps because the business days of students do not resemble holidays. Many experts of the education market admit that the ubiquitous brain drain has come down from the academic realm to the level of studentship. It has become fashionable to earn degrees abroad or to get a double...
On Saturday January 21, actor Yevgeny Zharikov was buried at Troekurovskoe Cemetery. A star of many movies, he was one of the most recognizable faces of Soviet cinematograph. The actor’s business cards were his roles in three very different films: Ivan’s Childhood, a masterpiece by Tarkovsky, the comedy hit Three Plus Two and the monumental series about Soviet police titled Born by a Revolution.On January 18, People’s Artist of Russia Yevgeny Zharikov died at age 70. In recent years he seldom turned up among his colleagues, almost never attended film festivals which he once loved and personally organized, because of his...
Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov, one of the Moscow legislators who initiated a revision of the city’s Master Plan, said in his interview for the Russkiy Mir portal how the municipal authorities plan to create an open-city economy and to eliminate such categories and the rentier class, illegal immigrants and the unemployed.– Why are you now reviewing Moscow’s Master Plan approved in 2010?
– The development strategy changed with the coming of new administration but there was no legislative basis for this change. In the former Master Plan Moscow was viewed as some fortress isolated both from the rest of Russia and from the...
On March 4, the people of Russia will be going to the polls to elect a president of the country. Extensive discussions are currently underway across society.
I consider it necessary to state my position on a number of issues which seem to be important in this broader debate: the risks and challenges Russia will, inevitably, encounter. The position we must take in global politics and the world economy. Will we follow the course of events or take a role in setting the rules of the game? What resources will help us to strengthen our positions and, I stress, ensure stable development? The kind of development that is a world away from stagnation....
I remember the beginning of Christ? – a multi-volume work by Nikolai Morozov. The author describes the work of the committee that aimed to reconstruct the circumstances of the victory of Bolsheviks in October 1917. Coming out of prison, Mr. Morozov was included in this committee as one of its supervisors. A year after the well-known October coup its survived participants were gathered to describe what was happening on the Day of the Second Congress of Soviets. Everybody said to each other: “You do not remember it, everything was absolutely different. You did not stand there, you did not sit there; these words were uttered by...
