I cannot get enough of this song. This is the kind of tune from the years where I wished I had lived. I absolutely love 1970s, and this song by Celentano oozes tons of the time....
I visited the Bolshoi Theatre only once, in early 1999. Together with my uni friend we listened to the Stone Guest (Don Juan) opera. We sat literally under the roof, and I got to see the beautiful mur...
Ingo Maurer’s project for the 2nd Moscow Design Week (11-16 October 2011) explores the notions of light and fire as applied to the living space. Called ‘the Poet of Light’ by Gilda B...
Chuck & The Dirty Dog, Moscow, July 2011 In Chelyabinsk (that’s a city in Southern Ural in Russia) they are celebrating John Lennon’s 71st birthday on October 10. Paul McCartney is tyi...
I love discovering versions of well-known songs in different languages. Here are three absolutely different versions, not only in that one is in English, another is in French, and the third is in Ital...
Whenever my native country’s people win awards and receive accolades, I feel immensely proud and happy. Alexander Sokurov has won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival f...
My school teacher eventually brought a small TV in the class, and we’d occasionally catch a bit of TV during the day, but more often so in the morning, especially when we had a “nil lesson...
I continue showing you Russian films, songs, and the work of outstanding Russian actors and directors that are available online. Previously I already told the story of El Poema de las Danzas that was ...
This has been one of the favourite audio tracks of the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, and I listened to it a lot, as I was growing up. Recently on my way from an interview with a doctor-and-singer I ...
Shalom Aleichem Not far from the synagogue in Bolshaya Bronnaya St. stands a small monument to the great Shalom Aleichem. Immediately as we saw his figure we began to exchange recollections of Fiddler...