r.t.i. 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