movement is criticized for lacking organization but proves it's far from chaotic and is in it for the long haul. now russian literature is full of legendary names known globally artie's al gore no ask how today's writers can make their way onto the world's bookshelves.

hello again or welcome to spotlight. on r.t.i. malbrunot and today my guest on the show is of like. russian writers like telstar and dusty ascii art hugely popular in the world but alike the great classics modern russian of the ship is almost unknown abroad one of the arguments is that the words modern writers rarely get translated what's wrong with promotion of russian literature abroad and we'll attempt to get that we're asking the deputy director of the federal russian agency for print and mass media like you never get what. publishing experts say to translation and russia leaves much to be designed the most celebrated literature was translated into foreign languages many years ago and

now the industry has almost halted recently the government has done some steps to remedy the problem these include the foundation of an institute to promote and harmonize the work of the translators and a special prize called rochelle to be established to recognize excellence be our stage. and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being here. first of all i want to ask you a news related question we've been hearing. in the news that your agency is becoming the principal state body supervising internet and russia well this is the web actually need government supervising what's your opinion. well. it's not very correct in that supervisor meeting that. you know if we're talking

about the technical aspects of internet it's supervised by the minister of communications because talking about the content is not supervised by anyone. probably except for the existing south of laws starting from the constitution so the propaganda of. war nationalism if a bit and we have also decide to set of laws which are super late in the propaganda of terrorism is also forbidden. so there is a law enforcement agencies were taking care of you know all the ip addresses who are you know involved in that sort of propellant let's get more specific there were several statements by law enforcement officials in this country in russia and after these statements they're growing fears that the states is planning to sue restrict

the freedom of internet in this country and you know what i'm talking that like we should know what the russians are reading what. you know what this question is also was disputable. and all the you know streeters of population of russia are very sensitive about you know any news coming from any state border which you know touching upon internet as. the communication issue but at the same time there are certain principles which is still under discussion with dean different bodies of russian government. first and foremost. propaganda. our of terrorism. secondly our our state our palm and is working on the new or burning state building child

pornography. and internet communications in child pornography and we would like not only our school children not only our. children library to ban the access to that type of. of information too but we also would like to to to ban it inside russia. and at the same time the the the the mass communication people are always. looking at any attempt to make an m member into just an lures as the attempt to to you know to reduce the. somehow to affect 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 the you know mass communication agenda is. adequate i doubt it and the other end of the news related question about the the competition between the print media and the online 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 standing the competition it's stopping heavily so we are. well we descend the same process in. 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 of. printer ins and if you take into account also the

the territory of russia and. it's not easy to deliver any newspaper to a far distant place somewhere in siberia despite the fact that russia is equipped with the system of decentralized printing are sometimes it's. this issue is. it's quite sensitive especially for the daily newspapers. and at the same time we are developing you know digital coverage. for television and broadcasting around russia and will be i think will succeed with or with that program by two thousand and fifteen. including you know the launch of. to the outer space of the new generation of russian communication satellites and we

i think will build getting all our you know villages and small towns will be getting access to a broad brought internet by two seventy two thousand and seventeen i've heard that means that. all the citizens of russia will get the access to you know electronic version of any reading media i've heard is in the news the other day that by year two thousand and fifty there will be no more paper magazines and newspapers well no 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 and means of information are moving into internet or rather becoming communication being information it is about paper or is it about a new way of communicating or says about the new way of communicating. you know

there are two things. we have to take in consideration first there's not that huge drop of the production of paper in the world despite of the new means of communication despite of you know the drop of the printer and somehow printers. us too. still enjoying you know what there is from advertise from all the other medias including advertising secondly. books are piece of art so they'll be a competition between other trying to book and and. 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 put the advertising on so. what i'm talking about that. the

media will be developing both ways i just part of the business and part of the culture says that a goody goody the deputy director of the russian federal agency for print and this media spotlight will be back shortly after we take that break so. it's. a broad market. we hear it because of how apache out states. that god promised them this the land belongs to us. well if they are still going to be thinking. and going chosen people well we must believe that god is real state asian look at this not just for

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federal agency for print and mass media. well let's talk about literature i know that 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 out of a so institution rather that will be responsible for that does that mean that there is a serious revival of interest to russian literature around the world or you want to promote such a. well there was always a certain interest of russian literature around the world. but. the problem is if you're getting. through the. any. bookstore whether you are in new york or in paris you certainly are

circling your city limiting the books by tolstoy does the u.s. effort. sometimes you're getting somebody in or sold units in the past or not. which is not the case with the more than russian literature only you know a dozen of russian writers who are. the first probably russian writer said be interested and the foreign languages are are. there are several you know. problems that. we're facing that the moment one of that is the. lack of infrastructure i mean by even sort of fiction if you want talking about the action talking about things. we're talking about fiction we're talking about politics we're talking about. we're talking about russian currently three processes so first is the lack of written infrastructure.

by the lack of infrastructure i mean that there is no special likely three gensis no literary agent or literary agents working with the russian literature secondly it's always risky to publish new names so what we're trying to do just to set up we've just set institution which will be supporting. both the translators and publishers the translation from the russian language into the foreign languages and the publishers were would like to respond to to introduce the new name. of the rational thought oh oh. this institution will be also organized in seminars will be organizing specialized schools for. four linguists would like to deep they're not the chin the russian language russian literature will facilitate their meeting with the. russian

authors and all the russian institutions linguistic institutions what currently involved in promoting transliterate recently will couple minutes ago when talking about the future of books he said that that that that lies and to roots because it's a piece of art and because it's business when selecting the books that should be translated what's your main principle and so i think is it is it business or it or is it there to stick quality. or both both both sometimes it's difficult but 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 a business route of it if you're talking to me or see a humanitarian 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 warton right in here. i would say. about art. well actually russia was this year's market focus country at the london book fair spotlight the me there has more and this attempt to impress british readers with new names in russian literature. it might be down to tolstoy does the yes and check up the russian joint the status of the guest of war not at the fortieth london book fair but the hundred russian writers and seventy publishers who attended were intent on promoting the merits of a much more contemporary brand of russian literature the 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 do with books by new authors to help the process along the russian federal agency for going to 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 in britain or the us and get in reviews in english language magazines they scouts grab their attention up their reading public i didn't knew names own side till story just a epstein check of to the list of russian must reads. after a b.b.c. radio launched a series based on

a silly grossman's life and fate this book became well a great hit in the end london that in there and it and ahead 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 the same effect anywhere in the world if you remember a couple of years ago the russians in a vision make the dictation of a series. by the city of city and then you know thousands of russian you know readers. went to the bookstores to to buy this idea to buy the book so it's it's you know all these tie ins very effective in promoting reading promoting books

promoted to shame promoting reading so if you ask me would i like to. make a serious on. on the contemporary great russian novels with b.b.c. i would certainly love to listen but promotion adaptation as he just said is all the stereotypes it's largely about creating stereotypes now after this b.b.c. series the brits are calling grassman grossman's no novel the greatest russian novel of the twentieth century well what's wrong with good old dr zhivago what's wrong with with leo tolstoy who wrote in the twentieth century as all of the nineteenth century is if they're creating a new stereotype to promote something new and said well i mean instead of the good all things you know what. i would put it the other way if if people read if any piece of art. even the reader show. stimulating people

to to read then. let's discuss the ratings and the waters then with the people read on the do not treat because the problem of 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 non-governmental organization of the united kingdom to promoting specifically. school children. this is a big problem for european civilization the new generation is not very eager to read 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 rate of the sales of new cars one of the main standards for. two to value the the state of literature

in the country is it is it possible to live on writing in a country so a russian writer and russian author if he of course he's not writing cheap detective stories can you live in it. that's a good question. may i ask you whether the american writer a british writer can relieve only on his. own his wealth present i don't know and i'll tell you why they're probably they probably they all are professors at university exactly thanks exactly so if you think in only ten twelve twenty bestselling authors in any country they can leave and sustain you know the living standards on their altars. 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 and maybe millions of people. around the world get their knowledge about russian about russian culture russian history by reading books by authors abroad who don't have the best knowledge about about what they're writing there are lots of russian history book russian books in russian culture that need to be translated into languages is that a girl you're setting for yes exactly exactly. if we're talking about nonfiction it serve the same goal as as a fiction are as well as. you know promoting our best scholars to be translated into the foreign languages on

there are certain areas in the world which which are asking us to provide us to provide with the. with tags books with science books with encyclopedias on there. and we're trying to to to promote our scholars abroad as 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 of all books in the internet is russia going to sort of try to to put purposeful third regulations didn't. principle never declared they were against internet and the did 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 put on what they'd put it would likely they would like to get something from from abandoned sea of offers from different you know. such an internet introducing free of for. for free and any russian or for any any piece. of literature so the. problem in question is that how to fight to get in piracy how to organize the law enforcement again participate in the help of internet. and. our prime minister understands the issue and he he's introduced just a special governmental commission on you know define intellectual property as well . that pertains to. distribution movies through tolerance

and abuse in the 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 led you know to go to deputy director of the russian federal agency for grants and mastery and that's it for now from all of us here spotlight will be back with more on tom and. in russia until then plain party and take it.

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