Svetlana Prokudina

Non-Standard Positions

Two weeks later, football players from Abkhazia go to England. The World Cup among unrecognized states and autonomies will be held there. For the national team of Abkhazia, the challenge is to win this tournament at all costs. What overshadows the plans of Abkhazian football players is that it remains unclear to the last whether they will receive a British visa and whether they will even get to London.

Karavaichuk. Beyond Love

In Soviet times it was impossible to go to a concert of composer Oleg Karavaichuk. Because there weren’t any. Karavaychuk’s eccentricity was too bewildering for the culture officials of that time, and he was practically banned from performing in public. He began to work at the Lenfilm Studio and write film music there. Recognition came to Karavaichuk only in the 2000s. It is summer 2015 and Oleg Karavaichuk gives his “Pure Music” concert. Half a year later he travels to Spain, where rehearses again. While there he meets with journalists and talks about how he senses the smell of death in the streets of ancient Pamplona.