All events are free and open to the public unless indicated otherwise.
| Time | Topic | Panelists | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:45 - 12:15 pm | An Overview of the Russian E-Book Market: The LitRes Customer Acquisition Strategy with Piracy | Sergey Anuriev |
Digital Minds Conference, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE |
| Time | Topic | Panelists | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | PRESENTATION: The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre | Alexander Drozdov |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 | Official Opening of the Russian and Moscow Stands | Vladimir Grigoriev, Alexander Drozdov |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 12:00 - 12:30 pm | Moscow - City of Books | Julia Kazakova, Dmitry Bak |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 12:15 - 12:45 pm | An Overview of Children’s Book Publishing: Innovation, Trends and Opportunities | Lev Elin |
Earls Court 1, London Book Fair, Children's Hub |
| 12:30 - 1:00 pm | PRESENTATION: The Read Russia English Translation Prize | Peter Kaufman |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 1:00 - 1:45 pm | ROUNDTABLE: The Role of Literary Institutions in Russia and around the World | Boris Tarasov, George Urushadze, Pavel Basinsky, Dmity Bak |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | ROUNDTABLE: Modern Journalism and Modern Literature: How They Intersect | Alexander Terekhov, Pavel Basinsky, Seva Novgorodsev, Hamid Ismailov |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | PRESENTATION: The Big Book Prize - Russia’s Biggest Literary Award | Zakhar Prilepin, German Sadulaev, Pavel Basinsky, Eugene Vodolazkin, Georgy Urushadze |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | A Non-Russian as a Russian Writer in Modern Russia (The Case of Hamid Ismailov) | Hamid Ismailov, Donald Rayfield |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | Books and the City: Reformatting Urban Living with Books - Global Ideas and the Moscow Experience | Dmitry Bak, Ruediger Wischenbart, Julia Kazakova, Andrey Gelmiza |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| Time | Topic | Panelists | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:30 am | PRESENTATION: The Institute of Translation | Eugene Reznichenko, Maria Skachkova, Oliver Ready |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 10:30 - 11 am | An Introduction: 9th St. Petersburg International Book Salon | Vladimir Malyshev, Andrei Shamrai |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 | PRESENTATION: New Face of Russian Literature in the 21st Century - Glagoslav Publications Brings Modern Russian Authors to English Speaking Readers | Maxim Hodak, Yana Kovalskaya |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 12:00 - 1 :00 pm | Translating Russian Poetry in the UK, with special Reference to Mikhail Lermontov | Peter France, Sasha Dugdale, Eugene Reznichenko, Robin Marsack |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 1:00 - 1:45 pm | PRESENTATION: An Innovative Approach to Learning Foreign Languages - Russian for English-Speaking Students | Dmitry Petrov |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | ROUNDTABLE: On the Translation of Contemporary and Classical Literature: Approaches and Strategies | Natasha Banke, Robert Chandler, Eugene Reznichenko, Dmity Petrov, Oliver Ready, Arch Tait |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Moscow Publishing Programmes for Children and Young Adults | Julia Kazakova |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 4:30 - 5:00 pm | Institute of Translation Presents: Irina Muravyova - Three Generations and One Angel | Irina Muravyova, Oliver Ready |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | Updating of Moscow Libraries: Results of the 1st Stage | Maxim Fetisov, Boris Kupreyanov, Alexander Sverdlov |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 5:30 - 6:30 pm | An Introduction to the 9th St. Petersburg International Book Salon | Vladimir Malyshev, Andrei Shamrai |
Wellington Room, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair |
| Time | Topic | Panelists | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:00 am | PRESENTATION: The Airspace - Two Empires, by A. Kartashev and R. Firsov | Roman Firsov, Irina Barsel, Anastasia Pukhova |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 10:00 - 11:00 am | In Search of a New Utopia: The future of Russian Literature | Dmitry Bykov, Gridget Kendall |
Pen Cafe, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair |
| 10:00 - 11:00 am | ROUNDTABLE: The Transportation Book of Russia | Olga Starykh, Alexander Panychev, Lyudmila Lastochkina, Anthony Heywood, Igor Mitsuk |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 | PRESENTATION: Moscow Reads in English | Julia Kazakova |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | PRESENTATION: An Anthology of Russian Poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Kniguru Award Presents: What Does the Next President of Russia Read? | Pavel Basinsky, German Sadulaev, Georgy Urushadze |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 2:00 - 2:30 pm | PRESENTATION: A House With An Eye To Corfu by Elena Zelinskaya | Elena Zelinskaya |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Haute Culture Book launches: The Sublimes, a modern classic by Yuri Mamleyev (an ultra-limited physical edition and a free digital edition) | Yuri Mamleyev (conditional), Luis de Miranda |
Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
| 3:45 - 4:30 pm | PRESENTATION: Tatknigafund - Electronic Library System | Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455, Y 425, Y 405 |
