Russian Television Today

'A serious piece of original research, his book can be recommended as a course reader for postgraduate students of contemporary Russian fi lm and culture, as well as a good introduction for members of the general public keen to know more about Russian televized drama and the complexities of the new sense of nationhood emerging in post-Soviet Russian society.' - Slavonica, November 2008

'The book is somewhat an encyclopedia of television dramas and comedies in Putin's Russia...There are ten chapters in the book including the conclusion. Six of them discuss television programmes by genre...All this makes the book a very useful resource for Russian Studies students, academics and the general public interested in television and culture in Putin's Russia' - Natasha Rylyova, University of Birmingham, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema

'The topic is a compelling one, potentially of interest to scholars working in related spheres of popular culture.' - Lyndall Morgan, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

"This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of prime-time fictional televison that manages to incorporate without distortion the richness of pre-Soviet (and in some cases, Soviet) literature as the primary formative stratum of contemporary television. But this study is far more than an account of the literary themes in today's fictional televison programs. True, the author recounts the plots and filming information about an enormous number of movies and television series of all genres. It might have been overwhelming for the reader, but for the author's felicitous style, thorough knowledge and the constant motion traveling across time and type of art form, with political events neither absent nor unduly stressed." - Ellen Mickiewicz, Slavic Review, Vol. 68 No. 4 (Winter 2009)