Likewise no American can help but marvel at the lack of television, and the lack of tv-watching. Three of those four stations are either owned outright or controlled de facto by the national or local government, which may account for some of the lack of interest, but broadcast MTV is available to some select households with the equipment and location to receive it, but it isn't doing well. A visit to a Russian newspaper kiosk is illuminating.
Many kiosks also offer pornographic bubble gum trading cards and stickers to entertain the kiddies.
Products with labels in foreign languages, most especially English, are popular with Russians, who seem suspicious of the quality of home-grown varieties. The merry young man is Dmitry Yakubovsky. Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The marriage took place some time following the conviction, in the prison chapel. Yakubovsky is not a man to hold a grudge, or to miss an opportunity.