here are some accurate pictures of contemporary russia 😉 www.wrecker.newmail.ru/www/russia.htm
Category: Russia / Россия
NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
while living in russia i saw the russian remakes of us-sitcom “the nanny” and thought that they were simply copied without paying copyright to the original producer (something not too uncommon in russia then…). how wrong i was. “the nanny” and also the russian version of “married with children” are licensed remakes: Still Married, With…Continue reading NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
tv links
my current favorite site is tv links. it provides a link-collection to movies, tv-shows, music videos – and not only english ones, but also e.g. russian… now i finally got to see “ivan vasilevich meniaet professiiu” (they also have “battleship potemkin” and “metropolis”).
new group blog on (post) soviet popular music
together with sergio mazzanti i have started a group blog on (post) soviet popular music. the idea is to collect people doing research on (post) soviet popular music within different fields and create a communal blog on the subject. the blog is located at ps-popular-music.blogspot.com/. if you read this and want to be included as…Continue reading new group blog on (post) soviet popular music
journals on russian popular music/culture
two journals have a special edition on russia with some articles on russian popular music: Subaltern #1 – 2007 – Ryssland osteuropa: Der Osten im Westen – Importe der Populärkultur
el’tsin & russia
among the large amount of obituaries (one in aftenposten, fiaskoer trukket frem, claimed that russians couldn’t wait at all before celebrating his death due to his reforms and war in chechenia). the former us ambassador jack f. matlock jr. wrote an interesting obituary focusing on el’tsin before he became president: Boris Yeltsin, the Early Years…Continue reading el’tsin & russia