Found on the Web: Important film on Russian culture at, focusing on writer Vasilyi Aksenov (Aksyonov, depending on how you wish to transliterate the Russian alphabet into English) and 1960s Russian "counter-culture."
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Below a Facebook comment by Mark Teeter (thank you Mark for your ok in posting your Facebook comment on this blog).
JB comment [not on Facebook]: Mark is a learned Stanford-educated linguist, admirably fluent in Russian, and commentator on Russia and its culture -- who actually lives in Moscow and whose sensitive (at times humorously ironic, not only when accompanied by images culled from the official Russia press), down-to-earth, reports of what actually goes on there, particularly in the state-controlled media -- stand in stark contrast to the rapid/vapid accounts of so many Western fast-media instant Russia "specialists" who (give 'em credit) did learn how to say (I am exaggerating) "do svidanya" (from their peregrinating perspective -- the "news" agency that pays them? -- before flying off to another "overseas assignment" (if it's Tuesday, it must be Rio ...) :)
Not to speak, of course, of "inside the beltway" USA imperial capital "think" tankers (hey, how many of them have lived, even if for a moment in, say, Samara, or even can utter a word of Russian?) with their pretentious pundit pronouncements (PPP will of course cure all international problems) on "the future of American-Russian relations in a global context"? Give me a break ...
