... writers. Nikolay Markotkin, the Council’s Media and Government Relations Manager, talks to Evgeny Chizhov about his novel “Translated from Word-for-Word Translation,” the specifics of the Russian identity, and the problems of promoting Russian literature abroad.
In a recent interview for our website, Vladimir Medvedev referred to you as an exception — the only author of novels based on the theme of Central Asia who is not biographically related to that region. Where does your interest in ...
... hobby – the cultural study of oil, the connection between oil and national identity in Russia.
Thank you so much! In the “Viewpoint” section, we usually ask experts to recommend books that they have particularly enjoyed recently. What could you recommend ... ... violent and scary scenes, but it deals with an experience of recent decades that has not yet been reflected in contemporary literature. For fans of counterculture literature, I would recommend Ilya Danishevsky’s
Tenderness for the Dead
, which is ...
... will have. Nevertheless 80% of the repertoire of Russian cinemas is American movies and 30% of employees of Metropolitan Opera are Russian. With the Brits it’s always complicated, but on 25 February 2016 we opened the Year of Russian Language and Literature in Great Britain and on 27 April 2016 we are going to open the Year of the English Language and Literature in Russia. The opening will be marked by the launch of a metro train named after Shakespeare. And the list goes on. On 4 April 2016, ...
2015 has been declared the Year of Literature in Russia. In an interview with RIAC Web Content Editor Maria Smekalova writer
Sergei Shargunov
spoke about “Free Press,” quality literature and journalism, as well as shared his insights on the degradation of the educational system ...
2015 is the Year of Literature in Russia. One of Russia’s most popular writers,
Oleg Roy
, shares his insights on contemporary literature, the state of libraries and promoting a positive image of Russia abroad through literature and cinema.
Russia has always been famous ...
