Nice to meet everybody! My name is Artyom, but I know that the pronunciation of it can be some strange and difficult, so you can call me as you wish.
  I was born in the center of a lovely country Russia, in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, although now I'm living in Saint Petersburg studying philology ( the Russian language and literature) in Saint Petersburg State University. My interests and hobbies are highly extensive; the main interest is literature ( especially Russian, but other ones too), music ( from Rock to Classic), history, antropology, ethnography, cultures, social sciences, beliefs, politics, many kinds of art, my native language, learning other languages ( although my English isn't enough) and so on...

I've registed here to meet new friends and improve my English. ( As I have said up, my English skills are not enough, but I'm training hard). If you agree to help me, I'll be very appreciative you; and if you have some difficulties with Russian, I'd love to help you.
  So, I'd like to talk with you and discuss everything!..:)

I would like to develop my speaking skills, so I have a web-cam and a microphone. But if you prefer snail mail, I will be happy to write you too...:)

As I said up, I like reading, listening to music, history, foreign cultures, social sciences, beliefs, politics, studying languages. And just talking with interesting people...

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Styx, Rare Bird, Nirvana, Robert Plant, David Bowie, the Beatles, the Police, Sting, Ozzy Osborne, "Пикник", "Кино", "Зоопарк", "Гражданская оборона", "Океан Ельзи", "Воплi Вiдоплясова", "Budka Suflera", Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Chaikovsky, Glinka, Chopen, Vivaldi, Mozart, Ferenc List etc...

Tarkovsky, Lungin, Fellini, Bergman, brothers Wachowski ( only "Cloud Atlas" and "V for Vendetta"), the USSR's comedies...

News...:)

FOREIGN:
Walter Scott, Byron, Dickens, Homer, Garcia Lorca, Goethe, Balzac, Ibsen, Cervantes, Dante etc... The Bible...
RUSSIAN:
Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Leskov, Saltykov-Schedrin, Block, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Babel etc...

I prefer to read all the context. For example:

Famous Lenin's quote:

"A cook-woman can rule the world"...

A sentence from Lenin's books:

"...I don't mean that A COOK-WOMAN CAN RULE THE WORLD..."