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(Below: Joanna Stingray interviews Tsoi and members of Kino.) Numerous Western rock acts began traveling to the Soviet Union to perform, including at festivals featuring some of the biggest hard ...

Songs by Tsoi and his group Kino not only play on loop on many radio stations, they are also regularly performed by popular Russian singers. Many in Kino’s fan army still refuses to accept his ...

newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues ...

Viktor Tsoi, front man for the popular Soviet band Kino, died in a car crash on August 15, 1990. Twenty-five years later, the lasting influence of the man often dubbed Russia's Jim Morrison ...