The ‘Kino’ rock band and its frontman were iconic in the music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and considered true symbols of perestroika. This composition was written back in 1986 ...

"He was making the most of Glasnost and Perestroika. He was on state television. He benefited from what was going on. He said it was a song about inner change," Ms Ridler says. Indeed, in many ...