Putin will help protect Russian literature

On Thursday, November 21, the Congress of Literature Defenders - the Russian Literary Assembly, will be held at the University of Friendship of Peoples in Moscow. Vladimir Putin will be prescribed at the plenary meeting.

He will announce serious decisions of the federal authorities who are designed to influence the future of Russian literature, Vladimir Tolstoy, adviser to the President of Culture, told Izvestia .

“This is an unprecedented event ... We collect people of all professions related to the literary process: writers, critics, translators, book publishers, book products, literature teachers, librarians, representatives of literary museums,” Tolstoy said.

He specified that more than 500 guests are expected. Those whom the presidential adviser called "writers of opposition views" were also invited.

“Now in the country there are several separate unions, associations. But no one ever tried to build all the literary problems into the system. It is this goal that is pursued by our collection. - noted the presidential adviser in culture. “It will be about a fall in the general level of humanitarian knowledge, a decrease in the quality and volume of teaching of literature, which affects the language, as well as about book publishing problems.”

In addition, Vladimir Tolstoy said that in addition to him in the initiative group that prepared the Russian literary assembly, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn, “all are the descendants of Russian classics” participated.