Livestreamed author visit with Natasha Lance Rogoff, award-winning TV producer/director who brought Sesame Street to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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The 2023 Pushkin House Book Prize was awarded on Thursday evening to Owen Matthews for his book “Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine.” Using accounts from current and former Kremlin insiders, testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Matthews a journalist who has been covering Russia and the region for more than a quarter of a century tracks the sources of the war from its conception and follows the first months of the conflict.
In 1993 Natasha Lance, a television producer with excellent Russian who had made documentaries in the Soviet Union and the newly formed Russian Federation, was hired to be the executive producer of a Russian Sesame Street.
The Pushkin House Book Prize is celebrating its 11th awards year with six shortlisted books that represent a wide range of scholarship and memories about Russia, past and present.