I. We have just celebrated 30 years since the death of I. A. Brodsky. And almost recently - in 2016 - they celebrated only 20 years. More than a year before that previous anniversary, at the end of 2014, when the World War had already begun, but we still did not understand what and to what extent it was all about, a warmly familiar literary critic approached me. - Listen, Belkovsky. Should we make a film for the 20th anniversary? You just wanted some kind of movie. Yes, here it is.

In January 2026, Aquarium released a new album , “Strange News from a Distant Star,” and MOMA in New York hosted the world premiere of a restored version of the classic British documentary Michael Apted’s film “Long way home” (1989), dedicated to Grebenshchikov’s work on his first and only English-language album, “Radio Silence.” Inspired by both, Zinaida Pronchenko met with Boris Grebenshchikov to discuss Husky, Stoptime, Vladislav Surkov, the “collective West” and the “Russian sound”.

Our regular author Ekaterina Barabash completes the story about her family with an essay about her father, Yuri Yakovlevich Barabash, Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR under Demichev, and later the editor-in-chief of “Soviet Culture”. From the ban on Yuri Lyubimov’s play to the State Prize of Ukraine, from performances about Lenin at Lenkom and the Moscow Art Theater to the first concerts of Scorpions and Boney M in the USSR.