The new, only and official website of Petr Bystrov

Sacha Letny will have his first ever public performance in Moscow as he is starring at timed to Hundred Years of Performance show music fest at Garage center for contemporary culture.

Besides a few appearances co-featuring his Boyarishnik band at Pariser La Maison Rouge back in autumn 2007, and another small event held at Cheremushki apt gallery earlier in 2006, there’s been no chance to catch up Sacha live anywhere.

A new program is an acoustic versions of Sacha famous as well as latest songs.
Exact date, time TBA.

To: Petersburgers, friends, correspondents, and the international community

Hello, everyone!

This letter is not a cry for help, but an attempt to inform you about what has really been going on in Moscow in recent days. It is written from the viewpoint of the father of two small children, from an apartment one hundred meters away from the Leningrad Highway section of the Moscow Ring Road, in Novye Khimki.

The already-critical situation (which neither before nor after the events described in this letter has been declared an emergency) that has unfolded in Russia, the Moscow Region, and the city of Moscow since mid-July (forest and peat bog fires, record-breaking heat, the absence of wind or rain) began to rapidly deteriorate on the night of Thursday, August 5, when smog engulfed the city in such a way that by morning (Friday, August 6) visibility was reduced to fifty meters even according to official sources.

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A Bystrovs / Kovylina most recent trip to Yerevan, Sevan lake, Armenia - brotherhood, love, organicism;
more pics here

Title: LEFT, LEFT… RIGHT!
Media: a 2-channels multimedia installation
Year: 2009
Duration: 7′

Bernd Brincken posing with his ‘befreiung’ placard on 9th May, 2009. Moscow

I received this email from Bernd on 9th May night and found it provoking.
It doesn’t make sense if I were digesting his issues - it’s quite comprehensive by itself.
I was to fire back at some references that was there, since I considered them peculiar to some of German understandings and to Bernd’s style in particular that made us argue for years.
Here I publish it as if it were a open letter; Bernd is yet aware of it.
For those of you looking forward to my respond before reading Bernd’s words, please follow the link.

Den Pobedy

by Bernd Brincken

Dear friends,

last years visit to Moscow brought a lot of lasting inspirations for me.

One aspect was the decision to organize events around the Den Pobedy in Germany.
So I’m sending you this email as a kind of official diplomatic report about my activities.

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