Please join the Harriman Institute and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center for a talk with Dina Sorokina, director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum and Lyudmila Telen, deputy executive director of the Yeltsin Center in conversation with the makers of the film ProRock (2015), producer Anna Selyanina and director Evgeny Grigoryev.
In recent years there have been significant developments in the cultural life of Russia. The general mission of the Yeltsin Center is to study and present issues surrounding the modern democratic society of Russia, its institutions, principles, laws, and customs, as well as to preserve and publicize the historical legacy of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Among other things, the Center supports projects in the fields of education, culture, youth, humanitarian cooperation, publishing and literature. It represents a new type of cultural institution that deals not only with recent history but also delivers a broad range of programs, raising questions about the country's often difficult past, while also examining a wide spectrum of contemporary issues and matters.
In conversation with film makers Anna Selyanina and Evgeny Grigoryev, through actual cases and examples, we will speak about the new generation of cultural influencers and will attempt to highlight some of the most important shifts that have been occurring in the cultural scene of Ekaterinburg and Russia in general through new initiatives that support awareness of contemporary history and life in present–day Russia.
