Vasil Kisil & Partners law firm brings to Kiev the legendary TV journalist and the author of “Namedni: Nasha Era” (“The other day - our time: events, people, phenomena”) LEONID PARFYONOV
On October 23, 2009, the Kyiv bookstore “Znannya” hosted an autograph session of Leonid Parfyonov, a famous Russian journalist, TV host and the author of many revolutionary TV projects. The presentation of his new project “Namedni. Nasha Era” in Ukraine followed the release of the first volume of this book series that was published in 2008 by KoLibri Publishing House*. The second volume of the project saw the light of day in May of 2009.
Leonid Parfyonov’s project “Namedni. Nasha Era. Events, People, Phenomena” is a logical continuation of all the television and journalistic projects he created before that made him a real pioneer of the current-news genre in post-soviet journalism. It should be noted that the first book of the project won the Rospechat Award “For the Best Book Written by a Journalist in 2008” and the Silver Bullion Award from Silver Rain Radio Station among the 2008 news events, while the second book of Parfyonov’s project won Book of the Year 2009, one of the top book awards in Russia.
Leonid Parfyonov is an author of the idea and a coauthor of the New Year Show "Old Songs about what really matters - 1, 2" (“Stariye pesni o glavnom”) (ORT). He is a member of the Russian Television Academy, prize winner of the Union of Journalists and TEFI-2000 (a special prize of the Academy), and the author of TV documentaries such as “17 Moments of Spring. 25 Years Later” and “Mesto vstrechi. 20 Years Later,” which were broadcasted on NTV as part of its "Contemporary History" cycle. Parfyonov brought us the famous soviet era documentary “Namendi. 1961-2003: Nasha Era,” popular TV films such as “All Zhvanetskiy”, “The Life of Solzhenitsyn”, “The Century of Nabokov”, “Living Pushkin”, and “The Russian Empire”. Leonid’s programs received TEFI Awards, Zvezda (Star) Awards, Face of the Year Awards, and Gong Awards.
Leonid Parfyonov’s weekly program “Namedni” (“Recently”) was broadcasted on NTV from 2001 to 2004. In 2002, the program won TEFI, the Russian National Television Award. After the journalist left the NTV channel, both projects were shut down and L. Parfyonov himself continued to realize his ideas in the book format.
During the autograph session in one of Kyiv’s oldest book stores – Znannya - Leonid Parfyonov answered numerous questions posed by his enthusiastic readers, talked to them in an informal atmosphere, shared his plans and new projects, including the new volume of the project “Namedni. Nasha Era 1981-1990,” which will be released in December of this year.
Leonid Parfyonov: “The Soviet civilization did not disappear. All the basic current values are Soviet in nature, and it is not the pre-revolutionary Russia and not the Soviet Union, but rather some third civilization that we live in right now. In order to understand the appeal of this epoch and the fact why it is still standing, I started doing my book about this era 10 years after the TV series ended.”
Parfyonov’s evening party took place in Margarita Vashchuk’s Kommunalnaya Kvartira Restaurant where he presented not only the book, but also his documentary cinema projects, e.g. “Ptitsa-Gogol’” (“A bird called Gogol”). According to the author, the movie was designed to remind the audience of the biography of this outstanding writer and his work using an unconventional approach in order to "hold the audience spellbound and make people watch the movie". Therefore, the project was generously peppered with “various TV gimmicks.” For example, Gogol’s work were read by popular contemporary singer Zemfira and the interior of writer’s Roman flat where “Mertvyye Dushi” (“Dead Souls”) Novel was written was reproduced using computer graphics. Famous showman and actors starred in the film: Zemfira read passages from Gogol’s stories, actor and director Oleg Tabakov read extracts from writer’s letters and diaries, actors Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yevgeniy Mironov, Liya Akhedzhakova, and Bogdan Stupka played Gogol’s characters.
Parfyonov came to Kyiv for a reason: now the journalist ia making a documentary film “Zvorykin Muromets", about Volodymyr Zvorykin, one of the inventors of modern television who had done military service in Brovary where Parfyonov’s team filmed on Saturday.
Managing Partner of Vasil Kisil & Partners law firm Oleg Makarov and Partner Oleksiy Filatov gave the following comments regarding firm’s participation in the organization of this visit: “We are pleased to be involved in the arrival of such an interesting author to Kyiv. All of us remember what a surprise was that "new television" he was part of back in 90’s - “Vzglyad” and “ATV”. This kind of breakthrough programming featured an abundance of interesting topics, but it was also very different due to a live language of the streets coming from young TV hosts, devoid of Soviet pathos. The subtle, soft humor, erudition and charm of Leonid Parfyonov still make him a journalist who can be trusted and an artist whose work is always interesting."
VISIT ORGANISERS:
leading business daily Kommersant-Ukraine and investment company Phoenix Capital
Legal support provided by: Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm
Host hotel: Intercontinental
Official vehicle: Audi
General transporter: Aerosvit
Partners: Kiev Cigar Club, KoLibri Publishing House, Agey Tomesh/WAM Publishing Group,
Kommunalnaya Kvartira Restaurant
Media partners: KyivWeekly, Melodiya All-Ukrainian Radio Network,
Tochka Newspaper, Ukrainian Bureau of the Voice of Russia Radio
* In 2007, Russian publishing houses Makhaon (a high-quality children’s literature and encyclopaedic editions), Inostranka (best translations of books by foreign authors) and KoLibri (non-fiction, historic, memoirs, popular-scientific and other non-fiction literature), which were known for their high quality of literature and a large number of bestsellers merged with and into Attikus Publishing Group.
Nowadays, Attikus Publishing Group publishes virtually all types of books and is one of the leading book market operators.
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Leonid Parfyonov’s project “Namedni. Nasha Era. Events, People, Phenomena” is a logical continuation of all the television and journalistic projects he created before that made him a real pioneer of the current-news genre in post-soviet journalism. It should be noted that the first book of the project won the Rospechat Award “For the Best Book Written by a Journalist in 2008” and the Silver Bullion Award from Silver Rain Radio Station among the 2008 news events, while the second book of Parfyonov’s project won Book of the Year 2009, one of the top book awards in Russia.
Leonid Parfyonov is an author of the idea and a coauthor of the New Year Show "Old Songs about what really matters - 1, 2" (“Stariye pesni o glavnom”) (ORT). He is a member of the Russian Television Academy, prize winner of the Union of Journalists and TEFI-2000 (a special prize of the Academy), and the author of TV documentaries such as “17 Moments of Spring. 25 Years Later” and “Mesto vstrechi. 20 Years Later,” which were broadcasted on NTV as part of its "Contemporary History" cycle. Parfyonov brought us the famous soviet era documentary “Namendi. 1961-2003: Nasha Era,” popular TV films such as “All Zhvanetskiy”, “The Life of Solzhenitsyn”, “The Century of Nabokov”, “Living Pushkin”, and “The Russian Empire”. Leonid’s programs received TEFI Awards, Zvezda (Star) Awards, Face of the Year Awards, and Gong Awards.
Leonid Parfyonov’s weekly program “Namedni” (“Recently”) was broadcasted on NTV from 2001 to 2004. In 2002, the program won TEFI, the Russian National Television Award. After the journalist left the NTV channel, both projects were shut down and L. Parfyonov himself continued to realize his ideas in the book format.
During the autograph session in one of Kyiv’s oldest book stores – Znannya - Leonid Parfyonov answered numerous questions posed by his enthusiastic readers, talked to them in an informal atmosphere, shared his plans and new projects, including the new volume of the project “Namedni. Nasha Era 1981-1990,” which will be released in December of this year.
Leonid Parfyonov: “The Soviet civilization did not disappear. All the basic current values are Soviet in nature, and it is not the pre-revolutionary Russia and not the Soviet Union, but rather some third civilization that we live in right now. In order to understand the appeal of this epoch and the fact why it is still standing, I started doing my book about this era 10 years after the TV series ended.”
Parfyonov’s evening party took place in Margarita Vashchuk’s Kommunalnaya Kvartira Restaurant where he presented not only the book, but also his documentary cinema projects, e.g. “Ptitsa-Gogol’” (“A bird called Gogol”). According to the author, the movie was designed to remind the audience of the biography of this outstanding writer and his work using an unconventional approach in order to "hold the audience spellbound and make people watch the movie". Therefore, the project was generously peppered with “various TV gimmicks.” For example, Gogol’s work were read by popular contemporary singer Zemfira and the interior of writer’s Roman flat where “Mertvyye Dushi” (“Dead Souls”) Novel was written was reproduced using computer graphics. Famous showman and actors starred in the film: Zemfira read passages from Gogol’s stories, actor and director Oleg Tabakov read extracts from writer’s letters and diaries, actors Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yevgeniy Mironov, Liya Akhedzhakova, and Bogdan Stupka played Gogol’s characters.
Parfyonov came to Kyiv for a reason: now the journalist ia making a documentary film “Zvorykin Muromets", about Volodymyr Zvorykin, one of the inventors of modern television who had done military service in Brovary where Parfyonov’s team filmed on Saturday.
Managing Partner of Vasil Kisil & Partners law firm Oleg Makarov and Partner Oleksiy Filatov gave the following comments regarding firm’s participation in the organization of this visit: “We are pleased to be involved in the arrival of such an interesting author to Kyiv. All of us remember what a surprise was that "new television" he was part of back in 90’s - “Vzglyad” and “ATV”. This kind of breakthrough programming featured an abundance of interesting topics, but it was also very different due to a live language of the streets coming from young TV hosts, devoid of Soviet pathos. The subtle, soft humor, erudition and charm of Leonid Parfyonov still make him a journalist who can be trusted and an artist whose work is always interesting."
VISIT ORGANISERS:
leading business daily Kommersant-Ukraine and investment company Phoenix Capital
Legal support provided by: Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm
Host hotel: Intercontinental
Official vehicle: Audi
General transporter: Aerosvit
Partners: Kiev Cigar Club, KoLibri Publishing House, Agey Tomesh/WAM Publishing Group,
Kommunalnaya Kvartira Restaurant
Media partners: KyivWeekly, Melodiya All-Ukrainian Radio Network,
Tochka Newspaper, Ukrainian Bureau of the Voice of Russia Radio
* In 2007, Russian publishing houses Makhaon (a high-quality children’s literature and encyclopaedic editions), Inostranka (best translations of books by foreign authors) and KoLibri (non-fiction, historic, memoirs, popular-scientific and other non-fiction literature), which were known for their high quality of literature and a large number of bestsellers merged with and into Attikus Publishing Group.
Nowadays, Attikus Publishing Group publishes virtually all types of books and is one of the leading book market operators.
.