Collective interview of the editorial board [Translit] for Colta.ru Denis Larionov: The first issue of the almanac [Translit] was published eight years ago, in 2006. I don’t have it at hand now, but it seems that it represented a high-quality, “author’s” cross-section of various poetics: both already well-known poets and completely new ones (the editors are Pavel Arsenyev and Vadim Keilin). There were many such publications then (but not many).

Nothing makes me so happy about my music (both big and small) as its independent life and meeting artists who do something unexpected with it. When Leila Erdman asked if I would be against a video being shot for the song “Romance,” I immediately said yes. Surprisingly, a large company of young professionals from the world of cinema, fashion, theater gathers on their own initiative and creates a work in which they invest their time, effort and imagination.

I don’t think that the reason why the current issue is dedicated to the Maidan needs any special explanation. The events in Ukraine and the Maidan are on everyone’s lips, but they are perceived purely negatively. Russian public opinion was formed in the spirit of confrontation, and its enemy turned out to be the Ukrainian Maidan as a symbol of foreign intervention, and in the sphere of vital interests not so much of Ukraine as of Russia, now a new sovereign.

Once upon a time there lived one gentleman, he wore glasses and smiled, and in his teeth there was a healthy gape... For this... all the men respected him, but the women were afraid. In the... the man poured beer, used it to open the bottle, and accurately spat from it on the waiter’s nose so that he would bring more beer.