Svetlana Adjoubei
Director, Academia Rossica
Svetlana Adjoubei is the founding Director of Academia Rossica - a cultural organisation established in 2000 in London and Moscow to promote and strengthen cultural and intellectual links between Russia and the English-speaking world. One of Academia Rossica’s biggest projects is the READ RUSSIA programme, aimed to raise the profile of Russian writing and the Russian book industry.
Svetlana Adjoubei is also the editor of the journal ROSSICA, an international review of Russian culture. Each issue is devoted to a particular theme, forming a library of publications covering all aspects of Russian heritage and culture.