Publishers Day
Monday 19 April
The first day of the London Book Fair will focus on exploring opportunities for further integration of Russian
publishing into the international book market.
Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | BFR, Y455 | Official opening of the BOOKS FROM RUSSIA stand | HE Mr Yury Fedotov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the UK; Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the federal agency for Press and Mass Communications; Svetlana Adjoubei, director of Academia Rossica
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11.30 – 12.00 | BFR, Y455 | Press conference | HE Mr Yury Fedotov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Sergey Lukyanenko, Dmitry Bykov, Olga Slavnikova and other guests from Moscow |
12.00 – 12.30 | BFR, Y455 | Presentation: “History of Stalinism” - publishing programme of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre | Alexander Drozdov, Director
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| 12.30 - 13.00 | BFR, Y455 | Presentation: The Foreign Literature Library publishing programme
| Ekaterina Genieva, Director
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| 13.00 - 13.30 | BFR, Y455 | Presentation: 'The Kremlin: the Secret of power' - Multimedia project by the Moscow Kremlin Museum
| Inna Lipatova, Cultural Laboratories |
14.30 – 15.30 | Marlborough Room, EC1 | Seminar: Who Rules Rules The Russian Book Market Today? | Vladimir Grigoriev |
17.00 – 18.00 | BFR, Y455 | Reception at the BOOKS FROM RUSSIA stand for Russian and international publishers. | Russian authors attending include: Dmitry Bykov, Sergei Lukyanenko, Maria Galina, Vladimir Sharov, Olga Slavnikova, Lev Danilkin (by invitation only) |