1 May 2026

Let's discuss the differences in approaches to working with drama in European and Russian theatre, strategies for creating text, trends, and […]

The New Jerusalem Journal is a journal of Israeli literature in Russian. The only requirement, besides the quality of the text itself, is its "Jerusalemness," understood as

How do contemporary texts become theater? Ten authors—prose writers and playwrights—will present their works to theater professionals and audiences:

Participants: Anastasia Patlai, Denis Kargaev, Evgenia Shermeneva, Marina Davydova, Maria Agni, Nikita Betechtin, Polina Borodina, Svetlana Dolya, Egana Dzhabbarova, Sergey Davydov,

Refugees, war, burnout—the topics that are difficult to talk about even with adults in Natalia Krupenina’s teen novel “I Know How to Fall.” “I

"The Mirror" is a novel of reflections. Its twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes form a cycle of returns, in which each part responds

A writer perceives the world differently than other people. A writer wakes up and sees emptiness all around, and this emptiness must be filled – with words. The writer sits down

Poetic translation, one way or another, lies at the foundation of the poetic culture of any nation, although this is not always remembered and not

The author is Luciano Mecacci, an Italian historian and psychologist, professor at the University of Florence, and a leading expert on the history of Soviet psychology. In the 1970s

Lyudmila Novikova (Sweden) and the Facebook group "I Don't Like the USSR." Are we returning to the USSR? What from the USSR influences us now? Introduction: Anna Sandermoen, publisher 

"Dawn Will Definitely Come" is a collection of letters sent to those currently being persecuted in Russia for political reasons. The book shows how

New authors are knocking loudly on the back door of Russian literature: open up! They have said goodbye to the past and to their homeland (some),

Irina Ivanchenko’s poetry is of the highest class, woven from the same fabrics – one would like to say, “from which cereals are sewn” – but

"There are events that don't become memories, that don't retreat into the archives of memory. They lie on the 'desktop' of consciousness - just like you

The project is a series of AI photographs and short films created in collaboration with Natasha Treya, Boris Grebenshchikov and Ivan Vyrypaev. “This is

"What can I do for you?" An evening with Linor Goralik, poet, novelist, artist, and editor-in-chief of the Novosti-26 and ROAR projects. Linor will be reading

On May 1 at 13:00 pm in Hall 5, Ksenia Buksha, author of prose and poetry, will read poems by her favorite poets and her own

This book renews the poetry series "Selected Poetry," published by YMCA-Press in the 1980s. From 2026, "Selected Poetry" will be,

Gennady Chernov (Canada), Anna Berseneva (Germany), Alexander Morozov (Czech Republic) in a dialogue about the meaning of the current non-Russian publishing boom, new literary prizes,

The characters are the heroes of the author's stories: Arkady Raikin, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Grigory Gorin, Alexander Shirvindt, Vladimir Voynovich and others. Photographs by Yu.