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KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Garik Kharlamov, Azamat Musagaliyev and Denis Dorokhov discuss current events every Saturday evening, joke and communicate with the guests of the show.
A talk show
Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.
The "Big Difference" is created not only for the audience, but also for those who became the hero of the parody - TV presenters and actors. A guest who comes to the studio seems to see himself through a magnifying glass, because all the details are taken into account in the parody: the character's manner of dressing, speaking, diction features, plastic, makeup, hairstyle. The uniqueness of the project is that in addition to entertainment, the program also has a developmental function. After all, our guest, who is being parodied, has a chance to look at himself from the outside, to see his shortcomings and advantages. Some people like themselves, and some don't. But the main thing is that no one remains indifferent.
Viktor Suslov finds himself back in the maelstrom of family passions: now he lives under the thumb of a new mother-in-law, with her single-handedly established rules and strict house rules. An already difficult life is disrupted by the sudden arrival of Viktor's twin brother, Tokha. The domestic "idyll" is bursting at the seams when, not without the participation of the mother-in-law, the former enmity of the two brothers flares up again. The situation is aggravated by the appearance on the doorstep of FSIN officers looking for Tokha.
Marina is in her late 30s, she has a successful business and a close-knit family. Her husband is a surgeon and her daughters study at fancy establishments. To everybody her life seems perfect. Though, it is all just a facade concealing the real problems: her husband has a mistress, her elder daughter is a slacker and drug-dealer, her youngest is a sociopath. Well, Marina herself is not really a flower-lady, but a brothel-keeper who is hiding her dark business from everyone. The truth may come out when a girl of Marina’s is found dead.
The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.
Celebrities remember Mikhail Zhvanetsky, with some of the unique footage from rehearsals and his home also featured. This is more than just a tribute: it is a concert film where Sergey Makovetsky, Yuri Stoyanov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Ilya Sobolev, Kristina Babushkina, Pavel Derevyanko, Sergey Zhilin, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Nastasya Samburskaya, Lyudmila Artemyeva, Nikolay Valuev, Sergey Zhilin, and Gleb Kalyuzhny breathe new life into the iconic author’s best monologues.
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
Four friends have been together since first grade, however, adult life makes adjustments and now they see each other less and less. And that night, the friends decide to gather for their last barhopping...
The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither business partners, nor friends - indoors at all there are no visitors. Men should spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with content of various fortress. When the door is locked from within, two heroes on a showdown have whole night.
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.
The action takes place on "Like a Radio". The rating of the radio station is approaching zero, the Agency that places ads on its air is suffering losses, advertisers are demanding a change of managers and are going to determine the station's policy themselves, the management staff is really changing, but the new bosses will not blindly obey the instructions of the advertising Agency.
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Residents of the city of Kirovsk have not been surprised by the beauty of the northern lights for a long time. Once, thanks to him, a simple girl Zoya receives a fantastic gift - a magical power that can change the fate of people.
Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.
