Valdai Club

Pyotr Yakovlev

Chen Yuan

Yu Yunquan

Ruslan Yunusov

Hiroshi Yamazoe

Natalia Yurova

Guney Yildiz

Irina Yutyayeva

Zhang Yongpan

Viktor Yerofeev

Russian Federation

Modern Russian writer.

From February 1998 to August 2011 - author and presenter of the TV program "Apokrif" (TV channel "Culture").

Materials

Umberto Eco: Defender of Spiritual Culture

With the death of Umberto Eco the world lost one of defenders of our spiritual culture,

What Is Russian Patriotism?

The kind of patriotism promoted in Russia has traditionally been about love for the state rather than the nation. But this country has demonstrated in the most vivid way that governments come and go while the nation, with its great achievements and potential, is here to stay.

Russian Cinema Is an Untended Vegetable Patch

If the state declares that patriotic films or films promoting ethnic harmony are what the nation needs now, there will be two or three such films made and that will be the end of it. The problem is that you cannot make people pay to see these films and movie theaters will lose money.