Podstantsiya, a Russian podcasting portal, posts an interview (RUS) with Gennady Krutikov, member of the Russian National Orchestra and one of the three Russian participants of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, who is on his way to the United States but will not be able to perform his part at Carnegie Hall tonight due to U.S. visa regulations problems. Krutikov's YouTube Symphony Orchestra intro video in English is here.
Internet-TV channel CCCR-TV.ru with archival Soviet TV footage launched on November 27. The site contains videos from 1952 till 1989. Is it another sign of Russian nostalgia for the USSR or just a new way to access cultural heritage?
Ukrainiana, Kyiv Scoop, and LJ user igordaily (UKR) write and post photos and video from this year's commemoration of Holodomor, the famine of 1932-33; Nash Holos writes about the National Holodomor Awareness Week in Canada. Natalia Antonova reflects on a recent visit to Babi Yar.
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