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malbrunot and today my guest on the show is of like do not believe what. the russian writer is like so star and thus the yes he are hugely popular in the us but i like the great classics modern russian of the trip is almost unknown abrupt one of the arguments is that the word style modern writers rarely get translated what's wrong with promotions russian literature growth and we'll it's hard to get that we're asking the deputy director of the federal russian agency for prints and mass media like you never believe what. the machine experts see in translation in russia leaves much to be desired. among celebrated literature was translated into foreign languages many years ago and now the industry has almost halted recently the government has done subscripts to remedy the problem these include the foundational research into plain old and harmonize the work of the translators and a special prize called russia is toughest to recognize we are still.

going to work into the show thank you thank you very much for being here i want to know first of all i want to ask you a news related question we've been hearing. the news that your agency is becoming the principle state body supervising internet in russia well there's the web actually need government supervising what's your opinion. well. so it's really correct. divisor meeting that. you know if we're talking about the tactical aspects of the internet it's supervised by the minister of communications talking about the content it's not supervised by anyone. probably except for the existing south of laws starting from the constitution so the

propaganda of. war nationalism there for good and we have also been such and such laws which are super late in the proper get of terrorism and sort of forbidding. so we're. forced into agencies were taking care of you know all the ip addresses who are you know involved in that sort of proverbial let's get more specific there was several statements by law enforcement officials in this country in russia and after these statements their growing fears that the states is planning to restrict the freedom of internet in this country and you know until we should know what the russians are reading what. you know what this question is also was disputable. and all the spreaders of population of russia are very sensitive about you know any news coming

from any state board which are you know touching upon internet as. the communication issue but at the same time there are certain principles which is still under discussion with different bodies of russian government. first and foremost. for propaganda. our tough terrorism. secondly our. state power parliament is working on the new world state building child pornography. and. internet communications so good spirits in chaplin or graffiti and we would like not only our schoolchildren not only. would through library to ban the access to that type of. of information to the but we

also would like them to ban it inside for us. at the same time d.v.d. the mass communication people are always. looking at any attempt to make them remember to exist in wars as the attempt to introduce the. two somehow to effect their liberties so it's always a discussion and i don't know whether. this information about any any any real steps to to introduce anything with a you know mass communication agenda is. adequate i doubt it in other in other news related question about the the competition

between the print media and the on line publication the great problem. around the world with print media competing with internet publications what's happening in russia what's the circulation in russia print media is a dropping or is it was telling the competition it's tough to have really so we are . through weakness in the same process in them in russian print media. any other country in the world like united states of america or western european countries it's. you know quite a noticeable drop over for. print friends and if you take into account also the the character of russia. it's not easy to deliver any newspaper at three four distant the police somewhere in siberia despite the fact that russia is equipped with the system over decentralized printing are sometimes and. this

issue is. it's quite saturday of especially for the daily newspapers. and at the same time we're developing you know digital coverage. for television and broadcasting around and it will be i think will succeed with or with that program by two thousand and fifteen. including the launch of. or through the outer space of the new generation of russian communications satellites and we i think will be. getting all our you know villages and small towns will be getting access to grow brought internet to seventy two thousand seven thousand i've heard that means that. all the citizens of russia will get the access to you know electronic version of any bringing you

have heard in the news the other day that's by year two thousand and fifty there will be no more paper magazines and newspapers well oh are we talking about the competition say of paper and plastics paper and silicon or are we talking about the. appearance of a new means like the newspapers from being just means of information are moving into entering and rather becoming communication leads information it is about paper or is it about a new way of communicating most about being a way of communicating. you know there are two things. we have to take incarceration first but there's not that huge drop of production of paper in the world despite of the new means of communication despite of. the drop of the print runs somehow printers. us too. still

enjoying you know what there is from every thought from all the other medias including advertising secondly. books are piece of art so there will be a competition between the product book and the. paper book but both of them will be existing. as far as. printing newspapers and magazines this should be something which will be. offering advertisers to pull the advertising on so. what i'm talking about. the media will be developing both ways. as part of the business and part of the culture . of legs even a pretty good eve deputy director of the russian federal agency for print and this media spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so thinking. it's

. time for our dear. we hear it because our country alex that. the guy promised them this militantly long stops. will if they are still going to be thinking that. god's chosen people will believe that god is real staycation ok it's not just for you guys in disguise as. well you know this is all of. this or might that.

welcome back to spotlight i'll grab in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is let's even agree it would have deputy director of the russian federal agency for print and media. well let's talk about literature i know that your your latest interest as an individual is translations translations of lush russian literature into foreign

languages i know that you you you run a news conference recently introducing a new institute of translations one of our so institutions rather that will be responsible for that that does that mean that there is a serious revival of interest to russia literature around the world or you want to promote such. well it was almost certain interest of russian literature around the world. but. the problem is so if you're getting. through. any bookstore whether you are in new york and paris you say you know something you're something reading the books by paul started to say yes. sometimes you're also getting somebody in or soldier needs to know past or not. which is not the

case with the russian literature only you know a dozen of russian writers who are. but first probably russian writers have been translated and the foreign languages are of. there are several you know problems that. we're facing at the moment well one of that is the. lack of infrastructure i mean i mean for sort of fiction we're talking about fiction or for talk about things. we're talking about fiction we're talking about poetry we're talking about. we're talking about russian currently processes so first is the lack of written infrastructure from and by the lack of infrastructure i mean that there is no especial lightly free agency is no literary agent or literary agents working with the russian literature

secondly in school was risky to publish new names so what we're trying to do just to set we've just set institution which will be supporting. both the translators and publishers of the profession from the russian language into the foreign languages and the publishers would like to respond to to introduce the new name. of the russian author oh oh. this institution will be also organized in seminars will be organizing specialized schools were. for linguists would like to deep them up which in the russian language russian literature will facilitate their meeting with the. russian or thirds and all the russian institutions linguistic institutions but currently involved in promoting facilities recently will pick up

a minutes ago when talking about the the future of books he said that that that that lies and two routes because it's a piece of art and because his business when selecting the books that should be translated what's your main principle that selecting is it is a business or it or is it they're just a quality. both both and both sometimes it's difficult to have both you know if you ask me as they represent of the russian you know governmental office i would say i would like to set up a direct communication between russian publishers and foreign publishers and set up you know it business with a real if you're talking to me or senior military or the person who was in the publishing business for twenty years and then. been a reader and admirer of literature as well as. the organizer of the biggest russian literary wharton wrote in here. i would say.

about art and well actually russia was this year's market focused country at the london book fair spotlight you know the media has more and this attempt to impress british readers with new names in russian literature. it might get down to those who does the f.t. and shakopee russia doing this status of the guest of who not before one. hundred russian writers uncertainty publishers. put tended more intent on promoting the merits of a much more contemporary brand of russian literature that fair featured authors well known in their homeland as well as up and coming contributors showcasing a cross-section of more than literature abroad is just one way for russia to promote its writers another one is encouraging translators to deal with groups mind you with us to help the process along the russian federal agency for grain and mass

media this founded the institute of translation this will hand out grants for to slay sions from russian into other languages the new writers expect priority to be given to english in the belief this is the best way to promote more than russian literature globally books published as in britain or the us and it's in reviews in english language magazines they scouts grab their attention on the reading public edge in new names the inside those stories as they have stayed in check of the least of russian must reads. after a b.b.c. radio launched a series based on wesley grossman's life and fate this book became a great hit in the end london had in the lead and had a hit in the united kingdom bookstores well will russia use this opportunity

to to to sustain sustained interest. i would say that it's not it's not just the. event introduced by b.b.c. if we're talking about. adaptation of any great novel we have probably had the same effect anywhere in the world if you remember a couple of years ago the russians in a vision make the patient a serious. idiot by the city of st and then you know thousands of russian you know readers. went to the bookstores to to buy doesn't have to buy the book so it's you know all these times you're effective in promoting reading promoting books promoted to shame promoting reading so if you asked me would i like to. make a serious on. the contemporary great russian novels and would b.b.c.

would certainly after. that promotion adaptation as he just said is all the stereotypes it's largely bad creating stereotypes now after this b.b.c. series the brits are calling grassman the grass was not novel then the greatest russian novel of the twentieth century well what's wrong with good old dr zhivago what's wrong with what leo tolstoy who wrote in the twentieth century as well as the nineteenth century is it fair creating a new stereotype to promote something you said well i mean instead of the good all things you know what. i would put it the other way if it's if you pull read if any piece of art. even lead the reader show. stimulating people to read then. let's discuss. the ratings and the authors then with the people read on the do not treat because the problem

promotion of reading is. evident both for the united kingdom and russia as well. we're trying to do. to take a lot of you know experience from from a non-governmental organization of the united kingdom to promoting specifically. to schoolchildren. this is a big problem for european civilization the new generation is not there if you get to the literature you know somebody told me that if one of the main. main standards for for the state of economy of the country is is the range of the sales of new cars one of the main standards for. to look at the the the state or look at your country is is it possible to live and writing in a country so a russian writer and russian author of course he's not writing cheap detective

stories can you limit. that's a good question. may i ask you whether the american writer or british writer can would leave for only on his so. called his well frankly i don't know and i'll tell you why. probably they probably they all are professors at university exactly thinks exactly so if you can only ten twelve twenty bestselling authors in any country they can leave and sustain going to be as little standards on their authors. if you're talking about the big literature. i doubt it i doubt that any any big literary name is. not doing something else for his living working as a professor as a consultant. another interesting thing about about translations you said we're

talking about fiction about poetry but. thousands of maybe millions of people are. around the world get their knowledge about russia about russian culture russian history by reading books by authors i brought who don't have the best knowledge about that what they're writing there are lots of russian history book russian books and russian culture that need to be translated into languages is that a girl you're setting feels exactly exactly. if you're talking about nonfiction so the same goal as as a fiction. as well as. you know promoting our best scholars to be translated into the foreign languages. there are certain areas in the world which which are asking us to provide us to provide with the. with tags books with the science

books with encyclopedias. we're trying to promote our scholars a brutal as well as big writers you mentioned e-books. distributed. in the internet as one of the means of quick distribution and sharing of information but if i'm not mistaken prime minister putin recently declared a war on free distribution of wild books in the internet is russia going to sort of try to put purple certain regulations that. never declared the war against internet i met yeah yeah unlimited access to he had a meeting with the russian book union which is a. association of russian publishers who were actually on what they would write yeah they would like to get something from from abandoned c.

of offers from different you know well such internet introducing free or for for free any russian or for any any piece. of literature so the big problem question is how to fight to give piracy how to organize the law enforcement again participate in the help of the internet. and. i would prime minister understands the issue. he's introduced to just the special governmental commission. you know the family intellectual property as well. that pertains to the source of distribution of movies through tolerance and submission of literature as well ok thank you thank you very much for being with us today and just a reminder that my guest on the show wasn't like you know he got

a tip if you director of the russian federal agency for prince and master and that's it for now from all of us here spotlight will be back with more time tom and you can tell us a little men playing party and take it.