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 

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 […]

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

"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 […]

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 […]

Refugees, war, and burnout are topics that are difficult to discuss even with adults in Natalia Krupenina's young adult novel, "I Know How to Fall." "I […]

"Dawn Will Definitely Come" is a collection of letters sent to those currently facing political persecution in Russia. The book shows how […]

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

"There are events that don't become memories, that don't retreat into the archives of memory. They lie on the 'desktop' of consciousness—as you […]

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

A writer perceives the world differently than other people. A writer wakes up and sees a void around him, and this void must be filled—with words. A writer sits down […]

Poetic translation, in one way or another, lies at the foundation of the poetic culture of any people, although this is not always remembered and not […]

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

"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 […]

Participants: Yuri Veksler, Natalya Gromova, Tamara Kandala, Elena Model, Vladimir Sotnikov, Anna Berseneva, Valery Bochkov, Alexey Makushinsky. What's going on with [...]

A new book by renowned historian and publicist Yuri Felshtinsky is the history of Belarus, seen through the prism of Natalia Radina's life, through the journalist's resistance, […]

A meeting with the authors. Moderated by Nikolai Alexandrov. Alena Makhoninova is a Czech Russian specialist, novelist, and translator. She specializes in contemporary Russian prose, camp […]

Poet and translator Alyosha Prokopyev will present his new poetry collection, "Fragments of the Future," the first book from the publishing cooperative. Joining him online will be Sergei […]

Personal prose feels like confession—but it almost never is. It's a place where loved ones can recognize themselves in the text… Where […]

In 2027, Raiduga turns 100. For a long time, the magazine introduced readers to the best Ukrainian writers writing in Russian. After […]

"Carry It With You" is an ironic autofiction of 12 and a half short stories about how to live when the instructions run out. Emigration, […]

This is a book about a man who knew how to tell the truth—even when it was dangerous. Evgeny Schwartz is the author of "The Dragon" and […]

Ten years ago, this story first appeared online—and soon became a phenomenon. It was read, loved, banned, but Leto […]

Alexey Voinov. Presentation of the book "Winter Without Snow" – about the beginning of the war in Ukraine and leaving Russia: a travelogue about the time […]

The magazine "Vozdukh", published in Moscow since 2006 and moved to Latvia in 2024, is one of two, along with […]

Materials for the biography of Evgenia Ginzburg (unpublished letters and documents) – presented by Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of Zukunft Memorial eV Holocaust on […]

In the introduction to “The Fenichev Phenomenon,” Leonid Desyatnikov writes: “It seems to me that Mikhail Fenichev’s poetry is one of the most tart and unpredictable […]

The Berlin-based artist, five-time winner of the Bologna Fair Illustration Competition (2021–2026), Non/Fiction nominee in the Book Artist category, and finalist of the Korean NAMI Concours […]

Vera Martynov's book "41515 Words" is structured in the genre of autofiction: notes are interrupted by a theatrical play, and then return to reflections on the present. […]

In recent years, magical writing and folklore have increasingly become a means of analyzing social reality. Fairy tales, spells, mythological images, and archaic […]

The book "In the City in November" is a selection of Tatyana Volskaya's poems spanning 10 years: from 2015 to 2025. The book was compiled not […]

Many perceive Russia as a country that has triumphed over the "digital Gulag." In reality, the situation is more interesting and complex: modern Russia is a country that has triumphed over […]

What is the significance and value of queer entertainment and light literature for the representation of queer identities in popular culture? Does queer literature need support? […]

Here is the soft angle of her cheekbone. Here is her nose. Here is the print of a lizard. Here I am, sleeping, shimmering, in the corner. Here is her head on […]

In 2026, ISIA Media Verlag (Leipzig) began publishing the "Free Debut" book series. The publication is carried out in partnership with […]

Lisa Heresh's debut poetry collection is a continuum of spaces and times, themes that don't speak directly to the reader, but instead pass through […]

This two-volume work is about modern Germany, seen not through the eyes of a tourist, but through the eyes of someone who lives there. The first book helps us understand […]

Presentation of two books united by a common theme: Alexander Makeev's historical investigation, "A Match for the Position: Faces of the Great Terror in the Volga German Republic" and […]

How do you find dating in exile? Has it gotten better? More difficult? More understandable? More confusing? Are you looking for dates from your home country? Or, on the contrary, do you tend to avoid your compatriots? […]

A major discussion featuring the following projects: ROAR Articulation Berlin. Banks Air Dactyl Colon Mirror Metajournal Ill Health New Jerusalem Journal Words Outside […]

The Walking Disaster Club is the second novel by writer Katherine Stockett. Stockett's first novel, The Help (2009), sold over 10 million copies and became […]

Mikhail Bashkirov, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, presents the book “Lightning Flashes,” published by Babel Publishing House (Tel Aviv) with the support of the StraightForward Foundation and dedicated to […]

Dmitry Strotsev, Dmitry Vedenyapin, Stanislav Lvovsky (online), Yegana Dzhabbarova, Ksenia Buksha, Stanislav Belsky, Valery Ledenyov, Mikhail Bordunovsky (online), Natalia Klyucharyova, Roman Osminkin, Daria Serenko, Yuliy Gugolev (online), Denis Larionov, Lisa Heresh, Evgeniya Lavut

Theater and film actor Maxim Sukhanov and historian Irina Shcherbakova will present the upcoming audio version of "Papa's Letters." The printed edition […]

The Dar Literary Prize will present the finalist books shortlisted for the second season. Literary critics will discuss their works with the authors and answer […]

Literary historian and Cold War scholar Ivan Tolstoy launched the historical and cultural almanac Connaisseur in 2018, when mass emigration […]

Mikhail Nemtsev, Inna Krasnoper, German Lukomnikov (online), Maxim Goryunov, Dinara Rasuleva, Boris Filanovsky, Arseny Rovinsky, Mikhail Aizenberg (online), Ilya Danishevsky, Anna Glazova, Nikita Sungatov, Evgeny Nikitin, Linor Goralik, Yulia Podlubnova (online), Dmitry Kuzmin

My name is Yuri Troitsky. I'm a lawyer, specializing in corporate tax law. I was born in Kursk and moved to […]

The world is bursting at the seams: superpower wars are fueled by the hatred and alienation brought on by the "rightward turn." The manosphere, incels, and patriarchal conservatives […]

Popular historical writers Andrei Shary and Yaroslav Shimov, winners of the 2025 Enlightenment Prize for their groundbreaking research on Central Europe and […]

Alan Charoit is a writer, singer-songwriter, and theater director who has been collecting folklore for many years. He brings back rare legends from his travels, which he then […]

FROM THE AUTHOR: I write a lot, but briefly. It just so happened: in my tender youth, as a diligent reader, I was captivated by the charm of brevity. […]

A new translation of Franz Kafka's famous late short story, "A Dog's Search," has just been released by Nosorog Publishing House. The translator will present […]

Alexey Voinov, Dmitry Vedenyapin, and Daria Apakhonchich. Moderator: Polina de Moni, founder of the publishing house.

There's a lot going on in Berlin, and the Russian-language literary scene is no exception. There are book clubs, writers' workshops, independent initiatives […]

The meeting will be moderated by Ivan Filippov, writer, author of the Telegram channel "All Quiet on the Western Front," and a researcher of Russian propaganda. Excerpts from the book will be read by […]

This book is about the violence that church authorities can cover up with the rhetoric of "paternal care." Andrei Kuraev shows that in the history of Orthodoxy […]

The author discusses the book “People and Lands” using the example of its most “Berlin” chapter: “The Prussian reforms of 1807-1814, ideal reforms “from above.” How humanity […]

Bibliorossika is a joint project between the St. Petersburg-based Bibliorossika Publishing House and the Boston-based Academic Studies Press. Presented by the publishing house's founder, Igor Nemirovsky. "We publish […]

The Association of Russian-Speaking Writers in a United Germany (SLOG) presents a program dedicated to contemporary Russian-language literary development in a transnational context. The organization brings together authors working […]

Mikhail Nemtsev's collection of short essays, "Clarity and Joy," takes us back to the very beginning of philosophy, where Socrates once began: […]

The male character in contemporary Russian-language prose is noticeably changing. The victorious hero and bearer of a "strong character," familiar from classics and 20th-century literature, […]

In his past life, the hero was a journalist writing about bicycles for a Moscow newspaper. In his new life, he's an FSB agent monitoring […]

Ilya Danishevsky is a poet and writer who works at the intersection of poetry and prose, using language as a tool to explore the extremes of […]

Presentation of the novel "The New Barbarism" (ISIA Media Verlag, Russian edition) and its German edition "Die neue Barbarei" (Matthes & Seitz, Berlin), […]

This is the most complete edition of Georg Trakl in Russian, including for the first time the surviving fragments of his youthful plays, drafts, and editions; it is offered […]

In her book, written at the intersection of poetry and prose, femactivist and writer Daria Serenko talks about people who are accustomed to not […]

Introduction: Anna Sandermoen, Publisher The conversation touches on the question of values ​​that guide a person. Everyone strives to have such guidelines, but rarely […]

Delfinov's performances don't quite qualify as a "poetry evening" – they're more like a fiercely tender concert with a band of invisible men on the second […]

"At the Corner of Independence" is a collection of humorous short fiction about everyday life, which continues even amid major crises. The heroes of this […]

Disinformation has become a powerful weapon in the modern world: with the speed of a living virus, it spreads through blogs and traditional media, penetrates under the covers […]