Mikhail Shvydkoy: We are not heirs of “Tolstoyevsky”

... Again, this is not about forcing anyone, but about awakening interest. Alexei Fenenko: Soft Power: Reality and Myth What can make Russia attractive culturally in the present-day... ... has been tormenting me for the past 30 years, ever since I began promoting Russian culture abroad and vice versa. On the one hand what the Western public today wants is... ... me the key problem has always been to generate demand for our modern art and modern literature. Speaking about cinema, I hold the view that Russian cinema is interesting...