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David MacFadyen
is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA. His publications include Russian Culture in Uzbekistan: One Language in the Middle of Nowhere, London: Routledge Curzon 2005; Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film since World War II, Montreal, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005; and Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion and Celebrity in the Soviet Popular Song, 1900 to 1955, Montreal, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press 2002.
Eurozine Articles
Can you hear me now?
Mobile technology in rural Russia
With Siberia and the Urals close on the heels of Moscow in mobile phone ownership, Russia's expanses are rapidly coming to seem less vast. How the latest technology is challenging the monopoly of state-owned media. [Italian version added] [more]
Valentin's cards
Refereeing the dirtiest match in World Cup history
Valentin Ivanov's "Soviet school of refereeing" during the World Cup 2006 was celebrated in his home country, if nowhere else. What does this say about the Russian attitude to rules? [more]