“My Love Remained in the Twentieth Century”: The “European Project” in Russian Music Before and During the War in Ukraine

Aleksandr Gorbachev is a journalist, scriptwriter, and a documentary producer. In 2005-2014, he worked at Afisha, the most influential Russian arts & culture magazine at the time, eventually making all the way up to the positions of managing editor and editor-in-chief. In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and the freedom of press in the country took a sharp downturn, he won a Fulbright fellowship and went to get a Masters degree at the Missouri School of Journalism. In 2016, Gorbachev won a Foreign Press Association Award. That same year, he got back to Russia and started working as a deputy editor at Meduza, the biggest independent Russian digital media. At Meduza, Gorbachev supervised its original reporting, focusing on narrative longform stories. Pieces edited by him at Meduza and other outlets won Redkollegia, the most respected award in Russian indepedent journalism, more than 15 times.

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