good evening, everyone. whew. that s really loud. good, everyone. my name is? carla thorsen. i m the vice president for programs at the commonwealth club. and i want to welcome all to this evening to talk about muppets and moscow bringing sesame street to russian television and into homes in russia in the 1990s. i had the privilege of being in during this time as well. and it was a really heady time. a lot of things seemed possible. and so the fact that sesame street came to russian and to russian families is really interesting and exciting story. so i m glad you re all here tonight to learn about it. before we get started, i d like to ask everybody to take a moment and please turn off anything that might be bring play music so that we disturb the program. and i also want to thank everyone for joining us here tonight in person and thank everyone who is also joining us online on tonight watching livestream. we do want to hear from you. so during the program please feel free to
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