Time

Event

Venue

Speakers

14 April, Monday

9.30
-
10.30

Seminar
Russian Book Market and Opportunities for International Publishers
Hosted by Academia Rossica

Wellington Rooms, Level 1, Earls Court One

Vladimir Grigoriev, Alexander Drozdov, Andrew Nurnberg,
John Parsons

12.00 - 13.00

Discussion
New Heroes of New Russian Literature: where to find new Russian writers? Russian literary journals - setting the trends.

Russian Stand, LBF

Zinovy Zinik
Alexander Arkhangelsky,
Natalia Ivanova,
Alexander Gavrilov

13.30 - 14.00

Press conference of the Russian Stand at the LBF and the Russian Language and Literature Week of (RLLW)

LBF Press Centre

Vladimir Grigoriev, Alexander Drozdov, Svetlana Adjoubei, Dmitry Bykov and all

14.30 - 15.00

Official opening of the Russian Stand by HE The Ambassador Yury Fedotov

Russian Stand, LBF

HE the Ambassador, press,
guests of AR and RLLW

15.00 - 16.00

Discussion
Redefining Russian National Identity: through the reassessment of Russian history

Russian Stand, LBF

Sergey Mironenko, Norman Stone,
Dominic Lieven

16.00 - 17.00

Discussion
New Russia - New Hopes

Russian Stand, LBF

Alexander Arkhangelsky, Bridget Kendall, Anatol Lieven

15 April, Tuesday

10.30

Presentation
Uralsib Publishing Programme

Russian Stand, LBF

Inna Lipatova, Vladimir  Tolstoy

11.00

Russia online - literature and cultural criticism on the internet 

Irina Prokhorova, Natalia Perova,
Alexander Gavrilov

12.00

Discussion
Russian Literature in translation: ROSSICA, Russophonie, Italian Prize. Presentation of
The Ties of Blood: Russian Writing from the 21st Century.

Russian Stand, LBF

Oliver Ready,
Natalia Perova,
Alexander Arkhangelsky
Svetlana Adjoubei

13.00

Presentation
Grants for Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature into English

Russian Stand, LBF

Alexander Drozdov,
Svetlana Adjoubei

13.30

Moscow Book Festival

Russian Stand, LBF

Alexander Gavrilov

14.00

Discussion
Re-evaluation of Soviet history under Putin 

Russian Stand, LBF

Sergey Mironenko,
Orlando Figes

15.00

Susie Nicklin
Setting the Scene: the British literature sector

Russian Stand, LBF

Susie Niklin, Director of Literature, British Council

16.00 - 17.00

Russian Museum
Russian museum collections - resource for publishing

Russian Stand, LBF

Vladimir Gusev, Director of the State Russian Museum
Joseph Kiblitsky

Reception

Russian Stand, LBF

16 April, Wednesday

11.00

Discussion
The Reality of New Russian Hyper-Fiction

Russian Stand, LBF

Perova, Maria Galina, Dmitry Bykov, Natalia Ivanova

12.00

Presentation
Russkiy Mir Foundation

Evgeny Verlin

12.30 -

13.30

Moscow's Getting Closer! Working with Russia

Seminar Room, LBF

Alexander Drozdov, Svetlana Adjoubei, Sergey Parkhomenko, Alexander Gavrilov,

David Miller

14.00 -

15.00

Discussion
Russia and the East: New Perspectives

Russian Stand, LBF

Norman Stone, Sergey Mironenko