with other beautiful members of pen, and again with kateryna kalytko, sofia andruhovich, with vakhtan kybululadze, and here in novohorod siverskyi, which is actually a border area, so there 20-30 km to the russian border, one man got up on meeting, it was extraordinary... but such a sincere conversation, and he told us this, he says that you won't believe it, but ukrainian writers have not come to us since 1989, 89, and we were all very impressed then, i remember, that the soviet authorities took very good care of ensuring that there were contacts between artists and writers with people farthest from... from the center in the provinces, cities, towns, villages, even there on farms, pig farms, they gave concerts everywhere, some meetings, how can it be done now, that is, there is no such propaganda apparatus, yes, what would this contact provide, but contact is needed, no matter how you see it, that 's how you can organize it on some such a wider level, because peng will not be able to anyway. to make such a contact, which is very necessary for both us and them, how can it be done? you know, i was