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Ludmila Ulitskaya in Tallinn, Estonia - Sept. 11, 2015
Sept.9, 2015: Ludmila Ulitskaya´s lecture in Riga, Latvia
Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes - Book of the Year 2015
Why Italians Love to Talk About Food at the World EXPO 2015
May 8, 2015: Ludmila Ulitskaya´s lecture in Berlin
GRANTA magazine featuring Ulitskaya
JUST PUBLISHED: The House That... by Mariam Petrosyan in Spain
Andrei Bitov became laureate of the 2015 Platonov Award
Alexei Makushinsky wins Russian Literary Award
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Elena Kostioukovitch in Venice at the Incroci di Civiltà festival
Vladislav Otroshenko in Venice at the Incroci di Civiltà festival
Alexei Makushinsky presents his Steamship to Argentina at the Salon du livre de Paris
JUST PUBLISHED: Auntie Mina by Maya Kucherskaya in Macedonia
JUST PUBLISHED: Why Italians Love to Talk about Food by Elena Kostioukovitch reedited in Italy
Presentation of Elena Kostioukovitch´s Sette Notti in Milan, Italy

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Lectures on Russian Culture by Yuri Lotman (NF)

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At the end of the 1980s, Lotman created a TV series entitled "Conversations about Russian Culture" (in Russian: "Беседы о русской культуре"). This series consisting of 22 lectures was broadcast by Russian TV Channel "Kultura" in 1990ies.

Later, Lotman created and released the 600-pages volume based on this series, entitled Dueling, Gallantry and Revolt: from Saint Petersburg to Siberia. Life of Russian Nobility in its Palmy Days, or Lectures on Russian Culture.

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Aquarius over Odessa, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1992)

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"Unfortunately, AQUARIUS OVER ODESSA will remain the author's final work; the tragic accident that took his life in 1994 has deprived Russian literature of one of its more promising talents." -- Joseph P. Mozur Jr., World Literature Today

The astrological sign of change, Aquarius, bodes neither peace nor goodwill for Mitrofanov's blue-collar hero Semyon Stavraki, a deep-sea diver working in the rough and bustling port of Odessa. Stavraki, an orphan raised in the ruins of postwar Odessa, claims the city as his mother and proudly credits her with having taught him honesty, respect, and tolerance for others. Nevertheless, Stavraki's story illustrates how bad things can befall good people, and his fortunes take a disastrous turn precisely when the star sign appears over the city.

The first-person narrative opens with Stavraki's homecoming from a prison camp in the north...

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