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События, выставки, концерты, фильмы ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Kate Mosse to be Keynote Speakers at LBF 2023; Ukraine to be Spotlight Country The London Book Fair (LBF) has revealed final highlights from its events programme.   Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, will be in conversation with Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah on Wednesday 19th April. They will discuss London’s role as a hub for the UK’s creative economy; climate change and the role of cities in supporting a more sustainable future; what the publishing industry can learn from other industries in supporting sustainability and showcasing best practice; and the Mayor’s own experience and how this has shaped his upcoming book Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency (25  May, Hutchinson Heinemann). (Photos: Sadiq Khan © Greater London Authority, Kate Mosse © Ruth Crafer) The seminar programme will also feature a series of events as part of the Guest Spotlight on Ukraine. Created in partnership with the Ukrainian Book Institute, English PEN, the Publishers Association (PA), International Publishers Association (IPA) and the British Council, these conversations will consider how Ukrainian writers have responded to the war, the role that books play in the fight against disinformation and for democracy, the role of women’s voices in these discussions, and writing from the front line. There will also be a stand showcasing the rich variety of contemporary Ukrainian publishing located at stand number 2B01. Highlights of the Ukraine programme include: Tuesday 18th April 09.30 – 09.45 Guest Spotlight welcome: Ukraine Opening Ceremony Speakers: Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrainian Cultural Minister; Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Book Fair; representatives from the PA and British Council 13.30 - 14.30 Art after war: the future of Ukrainian literature English PEN Literary Salon  Speakers: Victoria Amelina, Kateryna Babkina, Tetyana Teren Moderator: Sofia Cheliak Wednesday 19th April 15.30 - 16.45 You cannot mute the truth як працює український видавничий ринок під час війни English PEN Literary Salon Speakers: Olesia Khromechuk, Ukrainian publisher, British publishers - from BR, UBI Moderator: Olha Mukha Thursday 20th April 09.30 – 10.15 Prove Who you Are: The Face of Ukrainian Culture Today English PEN Literary Salon Speakers: Olesia Khromechuk, Iaryna Chorhohus (online), British writer, Orysia Lutsevych Moderator: Olha Tokariuk   13.15 - 14.00: Writers on the frontline: Stories from Ukraine English PEN Literary Salon Speakers: Luke Harding, David Patrikarakos, Victoria Amelina, Oleksandr Mykhed (online) Moderator: Charlotte Higgins ПОДРОБНОСТИ: https://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on/seminar- programme/programme/session-details.3159.187204.welcome-guest-spotlight- ukraine.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE 11TH PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE https://www.pushkinhouse.org/pushkin-prize 2023 marks the eleventh year of the Pushkin House Book Prize, which aims to encourage, support and award authors who contribute to our understanding of Russia’s complex culture, history and people, including the new realities since 24 February 2022. PH  announced the distinguished judges who will make up this year’s panel: Philip Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, and a former academic director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). He received the 2009 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern Languages. Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and author. They are a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor of writing at Bard College. Gessen is a recipient of the National Book Award for The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), a Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship and many other prizes. Alexander Rodnyansky is a Ukrainian film producer whose projects with director Andrey Zvyagintsev include Elena (2011), Leviathan (2014) and Loveless (2017); Beanpole (2019) with Kantemir Balagov and Unclenching the Fists (2021) with Kira Kovalenko. He was nominated for the Academy Award twice, won the Golden Globe for Leviathan, the Grand Prix of Un Certain Regard for Unclenching the Fists and the César Award for Loveless. Professor Mary Elise Sarotte is a leading expert on foreign policy and the inaugural holder of the Kravis Chair at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. She won the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 for Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate (Yale University Press, 2021). Ekaterina Schulmann is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin. She was previously an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Her writing includes Legislation as a Political Process (2014) and Not Just a Rubber Stamp (2018). A shortlist of six books will be announced in the spring, followed by an awards ceremony in the summer where the winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 will be announced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Настоящее Время русскоязычный телеканал с редакцией в Праге, теперь доступен в Великобритании на Freeview, канал 271. Телеканал Настоящее Время — русскоязычный телеканал с редакцией в Праге, созданный медиакорпорацией «Радио Свободная Европа/Радио Свобода» при участии «Голоса Америки».  Канал был создан как альтернатива Кремлевской пропаганде и рассказывает о важных новостях, освещает мировые события, обсуждает происходящие процессы. Редакция Настоящего Времени находится в Праге (Чехия), а журналисты работают в России, Украине, Казахстане, Азербайджане, Беларуси, Грузии, Кыргызстане и других странах. 28 февраля 2022 года Роскомнадзор заблокировал в России сайт канала в связи с освещением вторжения России в Украину. Канал по-прежнему доступен российской аудитории на Youtube и в социальных сетях. Следуя за запуском новостного канала Украина24, в конце весны 2022 г. канал Настоящее Время был в запущен в Великобритании на Freeview, канал 271, а также через мобильные приложения Channelbox. https://www.currenttime.tv/news
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