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Rewiring the Mind, a series on the history of broadcasting by Dr David Hendy, media historian of the University of Westminster. Aired on BBC Radio 3 and reviewed in The Spectator.

Program on the history of broadcasting in the early Soviet Union (audio: part 1, part 2), featuring Tatʼyana Goryaeva, the Director of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, and hosted by Serguey Buntman, on radio Echo of Moscow.


The ideal people at radio Echo of Moscow:

Programs hosted by Olʼga Zhuravlyova, including Typical Case (program Web log), Curriculum Vitae co‑hosted with Yana Margasova, and Turn co‑hosted with Alexey Osin.
Unbelievable look and uncontrollable, irresistible charm. Intellectual, artistic talk that is full of nuances, and sometimes at racing, almost supersonic, speeds.
My favorite radio hostess of all times and nations.

Contemporary culture in the programs hosted by Kseniya Larina (column in The New Times magazine—«Novoye vremya»—is divided by two addresses; Web logbeware: figurative language!), including Dithyramb, Culture Shock, and Literary Casino co‑hosted with Maya Peshkova (Web log).
A reference artistic taste, stunning, never failing to surprise, creativity and inventiveness, and inner strength.

Programs hosted by Natella Boltyanskaya, including Author Songs; her Web log, her Web site.
Song authors as well as listeners are much obliged to her.

Program series “Brothers”, featuring Dr Leonid Matsikh and hosted by Narghiz Asadova; program Web log.
Programs series that makes understanding of many things possible.

Program Tectonic Shift with Yevgueniy Yasin, hosted by Irina Merkulova and Vladimir Romenskiy.
A program that also lets understand a lot.

Programs hosted by Vitaliy Dymarskiy; his Web log.
A host that people want to tell to.


Seliane.ru (Villagers), independent journalism in Pavlovo region by Elena Gorgots


Four songs from the album « Je te dis vous » by Patricia Kaas:
the title song (the song with the same name),
« Hôtel Normandy »,
« Fatiguée d’attendre » (Fatigued to Wait),
« Y’avait tant d’étoiles » (There Were So Many Stars).

The book Love Canon by Natalia Sokolovskaya

Literature by Konstantin Paustovskiy, including The Story of a Life and the story Rainy Dawn

Books by Rustam Rakhmatullin, including “Two Moscows, or the Metaphysics of the Metropolis” and “Loving Moscow. Topography, Sociology, and Metaphysics of the Love Myth.

Grigoriy Danskoy, music and verses

Books by Victor Pelevin, including Hermit and Sixfinger and The Life of Insects (solo‐performance by Serguey Makovetskiy, sound by Andrey Popov)

The play Duck Hunting by Alexander Vampilov

Philosophy of Yuriy Mamleyev

Films by Andrey Tarkovskiy, including Stalker and Andrey Roublyov

Science fiction and society fiction by the Strugatskiy brothers

Cybernetics fiction by Stanisław Lem

Music and verses by Nautilus Pompilius, including the album Titanic

Books by the actress Elena Koreneva

Evgueniy Klyachkin, music and verses

Music albums by Today in the World (formed by the members of Leap Year), including the album Novella Matveyeva Songs

Books by Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry, including Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes) and Flight to Arras (Pilote de guerre)

Films by Otar Ioseliani, including Farewell, Home Sweet Home (a.k.a. Adieu, plancher des vaches!)

Books by George Orwell, including Animal Farm and 1984


Ecological information by Global Footprint Network