Charmed Jazzman

"…when the music began, something very strange and frightening happened to the American. He suddenly stood up and, with a hooligan’s grin on his lips, began shouting-singing out numbers in time with the beat. It was a code concealing astonishing secrets capable of overturning world politics. Coming out of his trance, the American remembered nothing..." The first secret: Why did Yuri Andropov in his youth bear a striking resemblance to the great jazz musician Glenn Miller? The second secret: How did Yuri Andropov manage to come to power against the will of Brezhnev and the members of the Politburo? And only the third secret could explain it all: the magical power of jazz, which prevented a world war. Andrei Ostalsky graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at a prestigious university in the capital. Years of working at TASS and frequent assignments to Middle Eastern countries made him an expert on Eastern culture. In the 1990s, he worked for the newspaper Izvestia. Together with the British company The Financial Times, he founded the Financial News program. This project and the acquaintance with BBC enthusiasts give life to several new programs at once. Andrei’s position as editor-in-chief of the BBC Russian Service does not hinder his passion for journalism. Andrei Ostalsky has a series of books written by him in the popular science genre.