Participants: Maria (Masha) Bloshteyn, Mark Budman, Anna Golubkova, Andrey Gritsman, Marina Eskin, Galina Itskovich, Nina Kossman, Shomo Krol, Olena Maksakowa, Dmitri Manin, Yelena Matusevich, Bella Mizrahi, Julia Nemirovskaya, Ian Probstein, Tatiana Retivov, Sergey Shabalin, Vita Shtivelman, Olga Stein, Alexander Veytsman, Josie von Zitzewitz.

Zinaida Palvanova reads poems from her new book “Ветер с неба” (“Wind from the Sky”).

Carlos Penela’s new book of poetry, “Between the Shadow and the Rose” (co-translated with Alta Ifland)

Alexander Veytsman reads excerpts from his new book “После Зазеркалья”

Boris Khersonsky, Lyudmyla Khersonska, Dmitri Manin, Galina Itskovich, Josie von Zitzewitz, Julia Nemirovskaya, Ian Probstein, Ilya Shambat, Maria Bloshteyn, Nina Kossman, Sarah Ossipow Cheang (French & Russian), Simon Patlis, Yelena Matusevich

With Bakhyt Kenjeev, Andrey Grtitsman, Boris Khersonsky, Tatiana Voltskaya, Nina Kossman, Eli Bar-Yahalom, Emilia Rozenshteyn, Semyon Reznik, Alex Volodarskiy, Alexander Rudkevich, Victor Fet, film editing by Ellina Savitsky; Ilia Zmejev, consultant

1) The debate between Slavophiles and Westerners began about two hundred years ago. Do you think this topic is related to the current catastrophe (the war in Ukraine)?
2) Are there any Russian poems that you fell out of love with after the war began? If there are, which ones?
3) What would you like to say to those who live in the Russian Federation and, risking their freedom, openly oppose the war?
4) After the film had been created and edited, the news of the mobilization in the RF arrived, and the topics under discussion took on a new meaning.