Sergey Khodnev is a music and art critic, historian, art critic, head of the culture department of the Kommersant newspaper. Laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of mass media (2019) and the Person of the Year award of the national newspaper Musical Review (2014). In 2003-2007 – the host of the radio “Culture” (program “Music. Publishers”). In 2005-2009 he hosted the Musical Kiosk program on the Russia-Kultura TV channel.