to this, the translator henry shepard is the editor of the journal of the british-russian, british-russian society east west reviewon the cover of the first issue for the past year of this. and yes, you can see a portrait of nikolai vtorov with children on a fabber egg and a lily of the valley, so this is it, this is what you see, these lily of the valley, actually, this is the collection of the sanctioned russian oligarch vekselberg, i don’t want to moralize, in we are actually talking about literature and awards, and my first question, rossislav, is this. how should we treat such a story with this award, should we somehow react to it, or just wait for such state awards to go away together with the generation of people who represent them? well, this is a bad story, especially since there are such unpleasant connections, and of course there are a lot of structures that are under cover, let's say so. of slavic studies in the world actually promoted russian studies, actually promoted this myth about great russian literature, they still work in the world and even in leading universities, but the majority of slavist s