Literary expedition for the Dnieper

In swimming and during our exits to land more than once, and a lot was said not only about high, such as literature and history - but also about such a mundane thing as journalism.

Then students. That colleagues. That's just lovers of debate.

From Russia, Maxim Amelin, poet and publisher, Nikolai Aleksandrov, critic and TV presenter, Igor Klekh - translator and writer, Vitaly Leibin, Victor Loshak and two, until he flew to Moscow urgently, Alexander Arkhangelsky, were forced to give an answer from Russia. He acted and still performs from Ukraine, does not sit down from the steamer of our time, Ukrainian publicist Yuri Volodarsky.

Of course, every time I, speaking of great journalism, boasted of an acquaintance with his great classmates Anya Politkovskaya and - God grant her health - Zhenya Albats; Our man, he must boast of something, well, for example, other people's virtues and merits. Anya, as far as I remember her by the university, did not seem to go to Jeanne d'Arc, although - we were not friends. Zhenya, at our rare meetings (since then, finished their studies and stopped crossing at the faculty) at parties in Moscow - I somehow had a rich office in the editorial office, nothing to say, well, well done! - He says that finally happiness had come her, writes everything that she wants, well, absolutely everything.

These are my stories about our women who will stop the horse at a horse - maybe there is the most interesting thing that I can inform the young people about. It would be logical to add to this, which I will do, how much debate will be, Ksenia Sobchak. Which, by the way, will also stop the horse for a horse. And which the Great Novodvorskaya praised the other day on her blog, with whom I would not forget to brag, also familiar with the same, which is flattering to me, to “you”. And there is also journalist Olga Allenova. Which does not get out of the Caucasus, from the wars mainly. I take off my hat. Of course, there is Olga Romanova, who before my eyes turned from a bunker (Ukrainianism crept up, the pressure of the environment, when the local word comes to the mind first and seems convincing and the only possible) television journalist in the rostrum and, in fact, the prophet. You know. In short, I take off my hat. I just take off. And it doesn’t even matter if they are no longer a journalist. Maybe they are politicians, or, there, state -owned people. But in fact they write in the media, then?

And here are all lectures. It is difficult to say how and what experience, for example, the same Albats, can help young talents in the Ukrainian province. By which we travel (I was not in Kyiv, but later). Well, here it would be joked with a quote “if it falls out ... it is better to live in a deaf province by the sea”, and to the sea we are getting closer and closer, every day. But what's the point? Of course, you can also quote Andrei Vasiliev (this is the former chief of Kommersant, who loved to say “the main thing in our work is to entertain the reader.” But this is not clear how much jokes, and then how much life, and then there are journalism, by the way.

I’m so long about this, sorry, I fulfill it, because they just ask, it means people are interested, probably, where to go. And not that I climbed to teach peoples. Standing on the ruins of the murdered craft, which may still be enough for our century, and if not, we somehow retrained into managers. Or the youth will simply tear off the last outlets to us, and we will go, the sun of the Palima. In fact, journalism is a job for youth. As said, it seems James Drannikov, now deceased, I don’t have enough of him sometimes - journalism, like prostitution, must be engaged in my youth, in fact both characters look quite a pity - both the old reporter and the old b ... d.

And in this sense - if we come closer to the practical side of the issue, such as how to live on - then you can’t keep silent about the council that our Igor Klekh gave Ukrainian future journalists: “Sell more expensive at once!” I will not subscribe to this, this is the personal position of my namesake and colleague. In order not to get up twice, I will say more - this seems to be no intimate secret, he speaks publicly about it - the glies is very positive about Putin, such as it would be bad without it. Maybe it seems to him that it’s good now? I’m talking about this here because, as I understand it, this is how he sees a message from Russian journalism: love the boss and sell more expensive. Here, I gave Kleu the stands, not to throw the word from the song.

One young man at a speech asked me: why did I write somewhere that guys should not go to journalism? I forgot when I said this and for what reason, but managed to restore that of my logic. When we had to choose something, in our youth, all the roads were closed. And now, in search of all the same adrenaline, you can go to business, to the landing, partisans, in a peaceful stupid policy of T.D, the head will fluff from the options! Why go to the girls to the journalism factory, there are no boys? Girls and so all around, by the way. And then, to date, journalism has shown its yelling - you will not guess what exactly - non -enactability, locality, provinciality. It is clear that what to do physics, or there, a doctor, or to the navigator on the ruins of world borders-and where to go to the shamans Russian-speaking?

And from such people who are no longer needed and will not come in handy, and sit live in their villages (Moscow is a large village, remember such a definition?) - and there is a powerful, and maybe the main, a charge of patriotism.

In a day or two we will be by the sea, since it is about the province. Everything will be fine, cheers!