Stas Namin

Stas Namin
Background information
Birth name	Anastas Alekseyevich Mikoyan
Also known as	Stas Namin
Born	(1951-11-08) 8 November 1951
Origin	Moscow, USSR
Genres	art rock, blues rock, ethno rock, progressive rock, pop rock, ethno jass, symphony, sympho rock
Occupation(s)	musician, composer, song writer, producer, artist, photographer, theatre and movie director and producer, promoter
Instruments	guitar, sitar, keyboards
Years active	1964–present
Website	www.stasnamin.com

Stas Namin (birth name Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, born 8 November 1951 in Moscow, USSR) – is a cult figure in Russia.He’s one of the founders of Russian rock music; the creator and leader of the legendary band The Flowers which over the course of its 50 years' history sold more than sixty million copies in the USSR and the East European Block countries; the creator and producer of the world famous rock band Gorky Park; the organizer of the country’s first independent production company, SNC,^[1][2][3][4] (Stas Namin Centre) became virtually the first independent corporation which broke the state monopoly. from which many Russian stars emerged; the organizer of the country’s first pop and rock festivals; the founder of the country’s first private enterprises giving rise to much of today’s Russian show business (record label, radio station, TV network, concert agency, design studio and others); the founder of Russia’s first non-governmental symphony orchestra;^[5] and the creator of the country’s first Western-style musical theater.

In recent years Namin has devoted himself to personal creative projects. He conducted three concerts with The Flowers and released the albums: The Flowers's 40th Anniversary, Homo Sapiens and Flower Power. The albums included both the old and the new songs, among them Light and Joy, Window into Freedom, as well as two remakes: Another Brick in the Wall and Give Peace a Chance. He also recorded a rock version album of Russian old village songs.

His experiments in symphonic music include the piano version of his well-known suite Autumn in Petersburg, which was recorded in Germany in 2016, and his new symphony Centuria S – Quark, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. In the area of ethnic music, he’s performed as a sitarist in Vrindavan, India, in 2012; recorded the triple album Meditation and the double album One World Music Freedom with guests from India, Armenia, Israel, Palestine, Great Britain, Africa and other lands; and recorded with the band the Flowers an album of rock arrangements of old Russian folk songs.

Namin is both stage director and producer at his theater, whose first production, the legendary American musical Hair, has played continuously for seventeen years. He’s staged a Russian- and English-language versions of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. One of his theater’s latest productions, a reconstruction of the 1913 avant-garde opera Victory Over the Sun, played in 2015 at three major international venues – the leading contemporary art expo Art Basel, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the annual FIAC art fair in Paris – receiving high praise from critics and art historians.^[6][7][8][9]

Also a film director and producer, Namin has created a series of travel documentaries – Surprising Cuba, Northern India and A Journey to the Ancient Churches of Armenia – and a filmed interview with Ernst Neizvestny. He co-produced the American film Free to Rock, whose screen debut took place at the White House in Washington, DC, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, OH.

As a photographer, Namin has been long recognized in Russia. The State Russian Museum published his first album of photographs in 2001 as well as his recently completed labor of fifteen years, The Magic of Venus. Namin has been painting and drawing professionally for more than fifteen years, and his works have been exhibited in various museums and galleries in Russia. In the last three years he’s created the portrait series Inside Out and a series of works dedicated to Armenia. In 2014 Namin became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.^[10][11]

The Early Years

Stas Namin was born in 1951 in Moscow. His early childhood passed on military bases, as his father was an air force pilot (and World War II veteran). His mother was a music historian and writer, and Dmitry Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alfred Schnittke and other celebrated musicians were all guests in the family’s house. Namin began school at age six. Four years later, he entered the Suvorov Military School in Moscow, where he would receive seven years of military education.^[12]

1960s

Stas Namin in the Suvorov Military School

While studying in the Suvorov School, Namin first hears The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and becomes involved with rock music.

• 1964 Namin forms his first band, Charodei (the Magicians).^[12]
• 1967 Namin forms the band Politburo.^[12]
• 1969 Namin enters the Institute of Foreign Languages and becomes soloist and guitarist in the band Bliki (The Glimmers). Intrigued by the hippie movement – “flower children” revolting against the existing order of society – and inspired by the legendary Woodstock Festival, in late 1969 he forms a new band, Tsvety (the Flowers), which later becomes the first national supergroup, in effect launching the rock-music movement in Soviet society.^[13]

1970s

The Flowers. The first album recording. 1973

• 1973 The Flowers release their first single on the Melodiya label as a student ensemble. Unexpectedly, the record sells an unprecedented seven million copies.
• 1974 The Flowers release their second single, which is equally successful. The Moscow press names the Flowers “the Soviet Beatles”, and Namin and his band begin touring professionally.
• 1975 The USSR Ministry of Culture bans the Flowers, and use of the band’s name, for “promoting Western ideology and the hippie movement”.

Namin makes use of his forced hiatus from the band to finish studies at Moscow State University, where he matriculated in 1972. During this time, he’s in constant contact with dissident, nonconformist poets, writers and artists banned by the regime: Anatoly Zverev, Oleg Tselkov, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Joseph Kiblitsky, Alena Basilova, Venedikt Erofeev, Genrikh Sapgir, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others. Influenced by the Beatles and a visit to Moscow by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Namin becomes involved in Indian music and Vedic culture.^[14]

• 1976 Namin reunites his band, and the Flowers begin appearing again without their forbidden name, as the Stas Namin Group.
• 1977 The Stas Namin Group releases its first single, which enjoys previous success, but the group remains officially banned.

1980s

• 1980 During the “thaw” in the regime’s ideology brought on by the Olympic Games, the Stas Namin Group manages to release its first solo album in ten years, Hymn to the Sun, and make its first TV appearance.
• 1981 Namin performs in Moscow with Harry Belafonte and joins the international organization Artists for Peace.

Namin organizes the first rock festival in Yerevan to enthusiastic reviews by Time and Stern magazines, after which the KGB forbids him from working and confiscates his passport. The Prosecutor hounds the group, seeking a pretext to press criminal charges.

• 1982 Together with poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky, Namin writes socially and politically oriented songs that are banned by censors and remain unpublished in the Soviet Union. The regime now regards everything connected with Namin as dissidence, no matter what he writes. Even his hit We Wish You Happiness!, now a national pop classic of thirty years’ standing, is forbidden for three years.

Namin meets the composer Georgy Sviridov and shows him his music. Sviridov remarks on his vivid, expressive melodies and their unexpected developments.

Due to the ban on rock music performance, Namin changes his profession, entering the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors. There he studies under professors Lev Gumilyov, Paola Volkova, Anatoly Vasilyev and other outstanding personalities.

• 1983 Namin shoots the country’s first music video for his song Old New Year (lyrics: A. Voznesensky), with an openly political subtext. Banned in the USSR, the video is first aired on American MTV in 1986.
• 1985 Without permission from the KGB, Namin receives visits from Michel Legrand, Mikis Theodorakis, Udo Lindenberg, David Woollcombe, Dean Reed and other foreign musicians, with whom he enters into joint creative projects without the Ministry of Culture’s sanction and records the double album We Wish You Happiness!, which is forbidden in the USSR. At a specially convened collegium, the Ministry of Culture officially accuses Namin and his group of supporting the policies of the Pentagon.

Andrei Voznesensky invites Namin to his dacha in Peredelkino and introduces him to the poet Allen Ginsberg.

• 1986 Only with Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power and the beginning of Perestroika is the Stas Namin Group first able to perform in the West. The band makes a month-and-a-half-long tour through eighteen cities of the US and Canada. Namin meets and performs with rock musicians at UN headquarters in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington and other venues.^{[15][16][17][18]}

After the Flowers’ concert and press conference at the Limelight in Manhattan on John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono invites Namin to her and John Lennon’s apartment in the Dakota Building, where they spend the entire day conversing about life and creativity.

In December, on invitation of Peter Gabriel, Namin performs at the Japan Aid festival in Japan together with Gabriel, Little Steven, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne and other world-renowned rock stars. This is followed by a four-year world tour throughout Europe, Africa, Australia, North and South America, Japan and many other countries.^[19]

While in Japan Namin and Gabriel decide to create alternative music companies. Gabriel creates Real World Records to support ethnic musicians throughout the world, and Namin creates the Stas Namin Centre (SNC) to support musicians, artists and poets forbidden by the Soviet regime.^[20][21]

• 1987 Lacking official permission and documentation, the alternative culture center SNC opens its doors in Moscow’s Gorky Park. Here Namin gathers talented banned musicians as well as progressive poets, artists and designers from the political underground. Resembling Andy Warhol’s studio in New York, SNC becomes the country’s only “factory” for new free art. Frank Zappa calls it “the Russian Bauhaus”. The Centre’s visitors include Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2, Quincy Jones, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Brian May, Ringo Starr, Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. Inspired by the free, innovative atmosphere at the Centre in Gorky Park in the early 1990s, the rock band Scorpions writes its hit Wind of Change, whose Russian lyrics are penned by Namin at their request.

Here Namin creates his new band Gorky Park, the first and only Russian rock group to achieve worldwide fame.^[22][23]

• 1988 Frank Zappa comes to Russia to meet Namin. They become close friends, and Zappa will make several more trips to Russia. Namin introduces Zappa to Alfred Schnittke and young musicians and artists, and Zappa shoots a film about the Stas Namin Centre.

On request of Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Evgeny Velikhov, Namin is nominated to the board of trustees of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, organized jointly by Soviet and American scientists and cultural figures in 1987.

During a tour of New York, Keith Richards invites Namin to take part in recording his solo album Talk Is Cheap.^[24]

a legendary Moscow International Rock Festival. Moscow, Luzhniki, 1989

• 1989 On Namin’s initiative, the first ever Soviet cultural-political delegation to Alaska is organized. At the same time, regular flights from Russia to Anchorage begin. Stas Namin and American musician Eddie Money make a joint tour of Alaska.^[25]

In August, Namin organizes the Moscow Peace Festival at Lenin Stadium, the first international rock festival in the USSR. Performing at the 200,000-spectator event are Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Skid Row, Cinderella and Namin’s new group Gorky Park. The Western press names the event “the Russian Woodstock” and heralds a new era of freedom in Russia.

Namin creates the Moscow Symphony Orchestra (MSO), which gives a series of concerts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.^[26]

Guests of The Stas Namin Centre

1990s

• 1990 Namin stops the Flowers’ activities and begins work on innovative social projects to undermine the foundations of the Soviet regime.

In the spring, he creates the country’s first private record label, SNC Records, putting an end to the Melodiya firm’s longstanding monopoly and quickly conquering the Soviet market. SNC Records releases recordings of young, formerly banned Russian pop and rock musicians, as well as Western stars under license from Castle Communications (UK), for which it receives a Gold Disc award.

In the summer, Namin holds the first international One World Festival in Moscow, created to unite performers of various nations, races and religions on a single stage. The festival’s overall aim is to overcome national, social and religious divisions between people of the planet and search for ways to achieve real international unity and brotherhood for all.

Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) founds a Stas Namin Scholarship.

Namin founds the agency Stanbet Sport to organize direct contracts between Soviet athletes and Western agents, putting an end to the state monopoly Goskomsport. Signers include tennis player Andrei Chesnokov and hockey players Viacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov. These contracts pave the way for the world-level careers of many Soviet athletes.

Together with Victor Ageev, he helps create the Professional Boxing Federation of Russia.

• 1991 The Moscow Symphony Orchestra gives a series of concerts of symphonic, chamber and opera music in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Namin organizes the orchestra’s joint tour of Great Britain with Electric Light Orchestra Part II.^[27]

With the August Putsch in progress, Namin returns from a concert by the BBC Symphony and the Polyansky Chorus organized by him at Royal Albert Hall to participate in the defense of the White House (federal government building) in Moscow. He personally conducts negotiations with the tank commanders who’ve entered the city, persuading them to come over to the side of democracy.

In the autumn, on request of his friend Peter Max (USA), Namin begins negotiations with the Soviet government to return the Schneerson Library to the Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. He also organizes the first celebration of Hanukah in the Moscow Kremlin.

Namin organizes a Peter Max exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow and State Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

Namin proposes an international project to Russia’s newly-inaugurated president Boris Yeltsin: a worldwide tour of Lenin’s embalmed body. He suggests donating revenues from the project to pensioners, who believed in Lenin but ended up with nothing.

• 1992 In the spring, Namin organizes the festival Rock from the Kremlin. For the first time, formerly forbidden rock musicians perform onstage in the State Kremlin Palace, a hall previously reserved exclusively for the Communist Party congresses or the party approved concerts.

In the summer, Namin organizes the first hot air balloon festival in Russia, taking place in the Red Square and Gorky Park.

On invitation of Simon Wiesenthal, Namin speaks on the theme “Tolerance and Society” at a UNESCO conference in Paris.

Namin creates the publishing house Stanbet Publishing for exclusive limited edition publications. These include the first Business in Russia catalogue, with a foreword by Acting Prime Minister of Russia Egor Gaidar; the catalogue 100 Films and 50 Directors of the 20th Century in Russia, which remains unique to this day; unique photography and fine art albums; magazines; and works of fiction.

• 1993 In the summer, Namin organizes the Russian-Japanese fashion show Hello Russia! in the Red Square, formerly reserved for state events.

On August 22nd, two years after the August Putsch of 1991, SNC organizes the concert Rock on the Barricades in front of the White House in Moscow in support of defenders of democracy.

Namin delivers a course of lectures on Russian culture in US universities. He also visits his friend Frank Zappa in Los Angeles, where the two listen to and discuss Zappa’s latest symphonic album. Zappa has only a few months to live.

Namin creates the company Stanbet Development, a joint venture with Fuller Development, one of the largest real estate development companies in the US. Among its projects is the design and construction of the Russia Tower in the Moscow International Business Centre, several multi-storey residential buildings in the center of Moscow and the Apple Orchard suburban club on the Rublyovskoe Highway.

Stas Namin`s hot air balloon "Yellow Submarine". Albuquerque, USA, 1994

• 1994 Namin creates a hot air balloon in the shape of the legendary Yellow Submarine. It’s voted most popular at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (USA) and included in an encyclopedia of the world’s best hot air balloons.^[28]
• 1995 In January Namin meets John Kennedy Jr. whom he has known since the eighties, and they agree to release each his own magazine: Stas in Russia, John in the States. Thus they did.
• 1997 In June, Namin helps organize the 20th Moscow International Film Festival, changes its location to the Pushkinsky Cinema, and brings world film festival tradition to Russia by turning the theater’s steps into a red carpet walkway for movie stars and VIP guests. He invites world-renowned stars to the event: Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi, Ornella Muti, Brigitte Nielsen, Geoffrey Rush, Robert De Niro, Michel Legrand and Chuck Berry.^[29]

Together with Dmitry Muratov, Namin creates modern Russia’s most progressive newspaper, Novaya gazeta, inviting Mikhail Gorbachev to be its co-founder.

Together with Thor Heyerdahl, Yuri Senkevich and friends, Namin organizes and takes part in a round-the-world journey via Easter Island.

• 1998 Two idols of Stas Namin’s youth, Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience) and Eric Bell (Thin Lizzie), come to Moscow to perform in his solo album. They also participate in opening Namin’s Rhythm & Blues Café, Russia’s first live rock café, with a facade decorated with portraits of rock stars. The café’s guests, including the Rolling Stones, Ringo Starr, Sting, Procol Harum and Brian May, leave their autographs on the facade.

Together with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alanis Morissette, Namin visits Cuba, where Fidel Castro teaches him how to smoke cigars.

• 1999 On invitation of Michael Butler, producer of the cult Broadway hippie-rock musical Hair, Namin flies to Los Angeles for the musical’s new California production, and the two decide to create a Russian version of Hair in Moscow. In September, Namin gathers a troupe including American actors, and in November Hair’s Russian-language premiere takes place. With the Second Chechen War underway, the authorities accuse Namin of pacifism and lack of patriotism. The production’s troupe will form the basis of the new Stas Namin Theatre, one of Russia’s most popular theaters today. After the show’s tour in Los Angeles and New York the Stas Namin Theatre production is named one of the best in the world. For work in the musical Hair, the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and other shows Namin brings his band the Flowers back together again.^[13][14]

2000s

Tower Award of the Russian Nights festival of Russian culture, organized by SNC in the USA, China, Germany, Korea

• 2000 Namin becomes seriously involved in the creation of paintings, drawings and photography, as well as symphonic and ethnic music.^[30]
• 2001 Namin’s band the Flowers celebrate their 30th birthday together with other Russian mega-stars with a big concert in Moscow.
• 2002 The Flowers record an album of rock versions of old Russian folk songs.
• 2003 Namin holds the Russian International Film Festival (RIFF) in Hollywood, at which more than forty feature, animated and documentary films from the Soviet era are screened.^[31][32]
• 2004 Namin holds the Russian International Film Festival (RIFF) in Frankfurt, Germany, at which more than twenty feature and documentary films are screened.

Namin organizes a cultural programme for the Frankfurt Book Fair, at which dozens of Russian alternative, ethnic and jazz musicians perform on several stages in the city.

• 2004–2007 Namin holds a series of Russian culture festivals, Russian Nights, in the US, Germany, China, South Korea and other countries. The festival’s Tower Award is awarded to guests including writers Ray Bradbury and Gore Vidal; artist Peter Max; directors Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin; producers Peter Hoffman and Roger Corman; and actors Shirley MacLaine, Sharon Stone, Nastassja Kinski, Dustin Hoffman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and others.^{[33][34][35][36]}

Namin invites Andrey Voznesensky to the States where he introduces the poet to Sharon Stone. Voznesensky dedicates to her a poem. 2005 Namin holds the festival of American independent film IndieVid in Moscow.

• 2008 Namin’s The Beatles and India festival at SNC’s open-air space in Moscow’s Gorky Park draws 30,000 spectators.
• 2009 In honor of the Flowers’ fortieth anniversary, Namin records the double album Back to the USSR at «Abbey Road» Studios in London.^[37] The album includes the band’s legendary hits created from 1969 to 1982.

Guests of festival Russian Nights. Los Angeles, Hollywood, 2003-2006

2010s

• 2010 Namin and the Flowers record the album Window to Freedom at Abbey Road Studios in London. The album includes the band’s forbidden songs created in the 1980s. The group marks its 40th birthday with a big concert in Moscow.^[38]

The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) offers Namin the post of professor and artistic director of its musical theater courses.

Symphonic suit "Autumn in Petersburg" at the Moscow International House of Music. 2011

• 2011 Namin’s song Light and Joy is performed at a special plenary meeting of the UNESCO General Conference in Paris honoring the Declaration on Cultural Diversity’s 10th anniversary.

The composition Light and Joy graphically embodies the idea of One World. Along with rock and pop stars and ethnic musicians, adepts of the world’s five major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam – chant prayers in the song. “Light, joy and love” unites everyone in this hymn of unity among the earth’s diverse peoples.

Namin’s symphonic suite Autumn in Petersburg is performed in the Moscow International House of Music. There the composer also performs his new composition dedicated to George Harrison, Fusion Raga, on the sitar, accompanied by Indian and other musicians and symphony orchestra.

• 2012 In March, Namin makes a trip to the Beatles’ places of pilgrimage in northern India, giving a sitar concert in the temple of Krishna-Balaram in Vrindavan.

Returning to Moscow, Namin records the triple album Meditation on the sitar with special guests from all over the world.

In August, the Legends of Russian Rock festival, dedicated to the SNC’s 25th anniversary, takes place in Gorky Park with the participation of all of Russia’s rock mega-stars.

Namin and the Flowers perform a remake of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall in support of democracy and freedom in Russia. The song’s author Roger Waters gives the rendition a high rating, and it’s included in the film Free to Rock.

• 2013 In collaboration with the State Russian Museum, the Stas Namin Theatre mounts a reconstruction of Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Matyushin and Alexei Kruchenykh’s avant-garde opera Victory Over the Sun to mark the 100th anniversary of Malevich’s Black Square.

The Stas Namin Theatre also launches premieres of Namin’s new musicals The Little Prince, The Snow Queen and Underground.

In New York, Namin works on the film Free to Rock as co-author and co-producer together with Emmy award-winning director and producer Jim Brown. There he also meets a legend of his youth, Pete Seeger, at a concert of his old friend Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary).

• 2014 Namin and the Flowers give a concert in the Moscow Arena featuring political songs devoted to the conflict in the Ukraine, drawing 5,000 spectators. There Namin’s new song A Feast in Time of Plague and John Lennon’s «Give Peace a Chance» are performed in English, Russian and Ukrainian.

In New York Robert De Niro introduces Namin to Sean Penn with whom they discuss international politics.

By decision of its presidium, the Russian Academy of Arts elects Namin its honorary member.^[39]

• 2015 The film Free to Rock premieres at Georgetown University and the Capitol in Washington, DC (director: Jim Brown, co-producer and co-author: Stas Namin).

In June, the Stas Namin Theatre presents the opera Victory Over the Sun at Art Basel in Switzerland;.^[40] in September, at the Moscow Biennale; in October, in Paris; and in November, at the 16th Havana Theater Festival in Cuba.

On October 1st, the exhibition Porcelain Dreams opens in Moscow, presenting an exclusive porcelain series created by the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg on sketches by Stas Namin along with a suprematist tea service based on sketches by Kazimir Malevich and hand-painted by Namin.

In December, the play New York. The 80s. Us premieres at the Stas Namin Theatre. Its author, world-renowned artist Mikhail Chemiakin, created a play about a merry yet tragic time of Russian emigration, about an extraordinary group of exiles from the USSR consisting of dancers, writers, artists and actors, among them Rudolf Nureyev, Alexander Godunov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ernst Neizvestny, Eduard Limonov and others.^[41]

The Gusev Crystal Factory creates the original composition The Four Monkeys designed by Namin. It’s based on a well-known symbol of enlightenment and opposition to evil: three monkeys, each with its eyes, ears or mouth covered. By adding a fourth monkey to the composition, who’s absorbed in meditation, Namin rethinks and expands the symbol’s meaning.

Recording the symphony Centuria S-Quark with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, London. 2016

• 2016 World rock stars participate in recording a double album of Namin and the Flowers’ best songs.

The Yaroslavl Academic Governor’s Symphony Orchestra records Namin’s new symphony Centuria S – Quark.

In June, Free to Rock is screened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, OH.

The London Symphony Orchestra records Namin’s symphony Centuria S – Quark at Abbey Road Studios in London.

The State Russian Museum publishes Namin’s album of photographs The Magic of Venus, the result of fifteen years of photographic research into the phenomenon of childbirth.

A series of documentary films created by Namin, Conversation with Ernst Neizvestny, Surprising Cuba, A Journey to the Ancient Churches of Armenia, An African Experience, and Northern India; and the film Free to Rock are screened at the Documentary Film Center in Moscow.

Namin launches the plays My Heart’s in the Highlands, based on the work by William Saroyan, and Games of Mephistopheles, based on Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies.

Interviews

• Ogonek
• Itogi
• BBC
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta
• Novaya gazeta
• Noyev Kovcheg
• Rossiyskaya gazeta
• Coast
• Ekspress-gazeta online
• Banki.ru
• Billboard
• Egoist
• Turizm i otdykh
• Versiya
• Mir novostey
• Moskovskiy Komsomolets
• Argumenty i fakty
• Vouge
• Domovoy
• Stolitsa
• Elina Nikolayeva-S.NAMIN S NAMI, i zhizn' prodolzhayetsya-Vechernyaya Moskva
• Sergey Shapran-Stil' zhizni ot Stasa Namina
• Argumenty nedeli
• Novaya gazeta
• Trud
• Moskovskiy Komsomolets
• Kvadrat"
• Watch russia
• gazeta « Kul'tura »
• Argumenty nedeli
• gazeta «Metro»
• Vechernyaya Moskva
• Vechernyaya Moskva
• Moskva Tsentr

References

External links

• Stas Namin official site
• Stas Namin Centre
• The Stas Namin Theatre official site
• "Flowers" official site