«Observatoria Kulturi» 'Cultural Observatory' Magazine

Cultural Observatory is a magazine, which addresses professionals and advanced amateurs. It covers the culture process in its wholeness and diversity regarding all representations of culture in the society: theater and music, arts and cinema, entertainment and travel.

The authorship of ’Cultural Observatory’ comprises celebrated Russian art and literary critics and culture theorists, philosophers, historians, to ensure that the wide range of humanities is approached by representatives of various scholarly schools and from different perspectives of view, to develop diversity of approaches matching complexity of the subject.

The publication provides academic researches on key issues of cultural process, reports on Russian and international cultural events; analytics, essays, profiles and interviews, both original and translations, which are prepared by ’Informcultura’ dedicated writers and reporters.

The sections Context and Reality of Culture rise issues of culture in the global world, focusing on it relations to ideology, religion ad information society, economics. It looks at human dimension of culture, culture at the everyday level, culture policies, issues of identity, ethnic and cultural diversity in Russia and globally etc.

The section Space of Culture is devoted to the present of Russian and international art in its sociocultural environment, particularly in the regions of Russia and CIS.

Due to recent developments in the field of higher education there emerged a number of dedicated departments of the Theory of Culture in educational institutions. Challenges which they face and practical solutions they apply are discussed in the section Cathedra aimed at educators, college and university teachers.

Established since 2004. Frequency — bi-monthly. Pages — 150 p. Format 60×90/8.

Editorial Committee:

• Mr. V. Fedorov, the Chairman, General Director of RSL
• Prof. O. Genisaretsky, Dr (Theory of Arts), Higher School of Economics, Executive Director of Institute of Human Studies of Russian Academy of Science.
• Prof. E. Dukov, Dr (Philosophy), Head of the department of the State Institute of Art Studies.
• Prof. G. Zvereva, Dr (History), Head of the department of History and Theory of Culture at the faculty of Museum Studies of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Member of the Board of Institute of European Cultures.
• Mr. A. Komech, Director of the State Institute of Art Criticism.
• Mr. E. Kuzmin, PhD (Education), President of the Foundation for Development of Information Society.
• Ms T. Lapteva, editor, Head of the Research and information centre ’Informcultura’ of RSL.
• Prof. B. Lyubimov, Dr (Art Criticism), Director of the State Theater ’Bakhrushin’ Museum.
• Prof. E. Orlova, Dr (Philosophy), Director of Institute of Social and Cultural Antropology of the State Academy of Slavic Culture.
• Dr. M. Rakhmanova (Art Studies), music critic, the academic secretary of the State Central ’Glinka’ Museum of Music Culture, managing editor of ’Rossiyskaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta’ (Russian Music Gazette).
• Prof. K. Razlogov, Dr (Art Criticism), member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Director of Russian Institute of Cultural Studies.
• Mr V. Remizov, PhD (Philosophy), Director of the Museum of Lev Tolstoy, president of the National Committee of ICOMOS
• Prof. N. Slyadneva, Dr (Education), Head of the Department of Information Sciences of Moscow State University of Culture and Arts.
• Prof. B. Sorochkin, Dr (Art Criticism), Head of the Department of Cultural Politics of the State Institute of Art Criticism.
• Mr  G. Sternin, Dr (Art Criticism), Senior Specialist in State Institute of Art Criticism.
• Prof. A. Flier, Dr (Philsophy), Head of the Department of Cultural Studies and Antropology of Moscow State University of Culture and Arts.

Editorial Board

• Editor: Ms T. Lapteva
• Deputy Editors: Mr. A. Obidin, Ms I. Deeva
• Sub-editors: Ms. I. Vetlitsina, Ms. N. Gussejnova
• Section editors: Prof. E. Orlova (Context. Cultural Reality), Prof. E. Dukov (In the space of culture and arts), Mr V. Remizov (Heritage), Prof. G. Zvereva (Cathedra)
• Executive secretary: Ms E. Mikhailova

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Subscription code in the joint catalogue ’Press of Russia’ — 12141.
Information on recent and archived issues is available on the web-site of RSL. To download full-text articles please subscribe to RSL ’Informcultura’ services (see terms and conditions on the web-site of RSL ’Informcultura’, the link ’Service’).