RUSSIA MARKET FOCUS AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR 2011


    Monday, 11 April

     

     

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    		 Publishers and visitors at the Russian Pavilion

     

     

    		        Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of the London Book Fair, at the official opening of the Russian Pavilion 

     

     

    		 

    Boris Akunin, bestselling writer, Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, and Simon Master, Chairman of the London Book Fair Advisory Board, at the official opening of the Russian Pavilion

     

     

    		 Official opening of the Russian Pavilion

     

     

    		     

    Boris Akunin giving a speech at the official opening of the Russian Pavilion

     

     

     

     

     

    		 Sergei Naryshkin, Head of the Administration of the President of Russia Mr Dmitry Medvedev, interviewed after the official opening of the Russian Pavilion

     

     

    		   

    Moscow: City of Books - stand of the Department of Mass Communications and Advertising of the Government of Moscow 

     

     

     

    		 A captive audience at the Russia Forum

     

     

    		 

    Tatiana Bokova and Irina Stepanova, The Russkiy Mir Foundation, present the programmes supporting translation of Russian literature worldwide

     

     

    		 

    Russian writers Mikhail Gigolashvili and Zakhar Prilepin at the Russian Pavilion

     

     

     

    		 Avid listeners of the Russky Mir presentation

     

     

    		 Russian writer Vladimir Makanin signing his books

     

     

    		 Russian Literature in Exile presentation by Natalia Solzhenitsyn, Edward Kasinec, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York Public Library Emeritus and Victor Moskvin, Russians Abroad Foundation

     

     

    		 Boris Yeltsin and New Russia presentation by Alexander Drozdov, Director of The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Boris Minaev, writer, author of the biography of the first president of Russia

     

     

    		 Presentation of the book Freedom and Responsibility: In Search of Harmonywritten by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill I. Speakers: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, Archpriest Vladimir Silovyev, Head of the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate, and Brendan Walsh, Editorial Director of the Darton Longman & Todd Ltd

     

     

    		 Presentation of the Publishing Programme of the Government of Moscow
     

    Leonid Parfenov, author, and Arkady Vitruk, Azbooka-Attikus Publishing, presenting the series of books The Other Day. Our Times. 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s