What it’s all about.

My mission is to provide people in the West with a glimpse of what the best (and sometimes the worst!) of what modern and contemporary Russian mass culture and the arts have to offer.

As a British citizen who has lived and worked in different parts of the Russian Federation for about a decade I approach this as an outsider with a Western European take on things.

I also aim for a progressive standpoint: on the one hand I am not here to give succour to the forces of the alt-right, but on the other, I am not going to partake in misplaced  new cold war breastbeating. 

So come and join  me as we take a tour through the most interesting and latest in Russian writing, cinema, rock and much else besides!