Arve Hansen is a doctoral student of Russian at the UiT – the Arctic University of Norway.
Andrei Rogatchevski is professor of Russian literature and culture at the UiT – the Arctic University of Norway.
Yngvar Steinholt is associate professor of Russian at the UiT – the Arctic University of Norway.
David-Emil Wickström is professor of popular music history at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim, Germany.
Artemy Troitsky is a prominent music critic and author of Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia (1987), Tusovka: Who’s Who in the New Soviet Rock Culture (1990), and Subkultura: Stories of Youth and Resistance in Russia, 1815-2017 (2017).