Bichevskaia and the Russian TV scandal

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Mikhail,

   In response to your question:
   i wonder how radical this is, or if any of these ideas are actually
> becoming main-stream?---

I'm glad to say that after Bichevskaya's performance of the song  
"Kulikovo pole" on  one of the central Russian TV channels, the  
programme that hosted her singing session was closed!..
See her interview given to the editor of the newspaper
Rus'Pravoslavnaya: http://www.artistka.ru/rusprav.html

Of course, any radical ideas in Russia cannot be perceived as
mainstream but  I think that they shouldn't be
ignored either.
I'm not sure whether you've seen recently produced TV film on
Esenin (it was produced in 2005) but it gives a food for thought, too,  
since it has a lot of bias interpretations of history and Esenin's life.
At the moment it's interesting to see various responses to the film  
OSTROV (directed by Lungin)that was shown during the New Year Eve's  
celebrations on Russian TV. See the article in IZVESTIA, for  
example:<http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article3100220>
Perhaps, all the discussions around the film OSTROV could betaken as a  
good insight into the way how Russians see the state of their society  
today?

All best,
Alexandra



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk

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