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The Fifth Floor: Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian

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David Amanor and BBC Russian's Oleg Boldyrev in Red Square

27/09/2019 GMT

Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian

Stories from Russia through the eyes of the journalists in the Moscow bureau

Stories from Russia through the eyes of the journalists in the Moscow bureau, from Siberia to the Caucasus, and from protests to 1990s poetry.

Russia is the biggest country on earth, and seldom out of the news.  David Amanor visits BBC Russian in Moscow, where editor Andrei Goryanov heads a team of journalists who investigate, report and entertain Russian-speaking audiences.   

The Kremlin, St Basil’s Cathedral and shopping
Oleg Boldyrev walks David from the tourist hotspots, to the silent protesters outside the Presidential Administration building.  

Russian rapping and ‘90s culture
Seva Boiko and Anastasia Golubeva are colleagues and enjoy a healthy rivalry over culture.  Seva is a child of the 1990s, and his podcast - 8 Stories from the ‘90s - taps into the current interest in the era.  Anastasia has been following today’s rappers, and tries her hand at a bit of beatboxing.  

Inside the investigations unit
Andrei Zakharov and Svetlana Reiter share their experiences of investigating online crime, from murders commissioned on the dark web, to the trade in personal data.  

My Home Town Moscow
Nataliya Zotova shares a local view of Moscow, including the proletariat palaces of the Metro, the rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Gorky Park, and Lubyanka Square.  

Reporting Russia
Journalists Oleg Boldyrev, Nina Nazarova and Elizaveta Vereykina share stories from far flung locations, including the Siberian shaman walking to Moscow, the IS brides from the Caucasus, and spy dramas on the Russia-Norway border.  

Picture: David Amanor and Oleg Boldyrev in Red Square
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