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Mikhail Shishkin

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“It's impossible to be neutral. The epoch of neutrality has gone, and the next day Bundesrat said yeah we will support actions. I don't think it's because of me, but also Russians say my five copies just influenced this decision. And now Swiss Bundesrat, they don't want to support Ukraine with weapons. You know this, yeah. I was so much disappointed. I told a lot of Swiss people, they are very much disappointed too, because neutrality, you see, if you are neutral now, if you want just peace in Ukraine, and you say, no, no, no, no, no weapon, we have to negotiate peace with Putin. It means you support the war. And the only way to end this war as soon as possible is to... Get Ukrainian army as much weapons as possible.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Busits was a huge problem here in Switzerland. One year ago when this invasion started, the first thing our Bondesrat said No, no, we are neutral. We will not support sanctions. I was so furious, and next day it was Ariena, it was the main TV political TV show, and I explained to them.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who will change the bad ending in Russia? The promise that there will be no bad ending in history, we don't have ending. And my friend, very well-known Russian writer, he is well known in the West. He told me, Misha, what are you doing? People want to have hopes, they want to listen to you saying something optimistic. It's your mistake, you must end your readings in the following way, and so he showed me how should I end. He said, you must say the following. Russia is a country of wonders, of magics. And so let's hope that another wonder will happen. Are you happy with this? Optimistic ending.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everybody wants to have some hopes, of course, me too. You see, during this war I realized what Kazimir Malevich meant with his black square. See an artist has the feeling for the future. And in his future was the First World War, the bloodiest civil war and the Gulag. Russia now is this black square. I have a lot of hopes for Ukraine. I have not so much hopes for Russia. But you see, of course I understand people want to listen to Russian experts explaining to them everything will be okay. It will not be okay who promised that everything would be okay. Russian history is not a Hollywood movie. In Hollywood movie they see changed the bad ending like none.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Allow us to have one child in the family. It was the policy of the state. And so they all wanted to have just boys. And now they have a lot of boys. They are now grown up young men and they want to marry. But they miss 30 million women, 30 million women. So they will find them in Siberia.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where the northern territories belong to China, which is now actually the territory of Russia around the Baikal Sea. But we cannot imagine the situation now there. It belongs everything to China. My friend, she's an artist living in Zurich, but she is from Irkutsk. She went to Irkutsk before Pandemi, so it was 2018, and she came back with such eyes. There are just everything is Chinese already. She wanted to buy something in the shop. They didn't want to sell her anything, just go away, you're Russian. All schools in Siberia, children are taught Chinese language. They want this. A lot of Russian women want to marry Chinese guys, not Russian. And we know that in China this is a huge problem. For a very long time, they allowed it.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some democratic changes. No, they will have to prove the legitimizations through the victory. Now it will be not victory over Ukraine, but it will be a victory against another Putin. And the West will just make handshakes with this new Putins because they would promise to take control over the nuclear weapons. And Siberian will go to China anywhere. Now sea was in Moscow. I am sure they were discussing this. And actually Siberia belongs to China already now. Nobody knows this, but millions and millions of hectares they were given to Chinese enterprises for 99 years. And there are a lot of Chinese firms and companies working there. And maybe you have reddened, you have seen to this visit of Chinese president to Moscow, they publish new maps, geographical maps.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where Cheva Kavagner prepared the bunker for him. Anyway, he disappears. And in Russia, the struggle, the fight for the power would start. And people fighting for the power, they would not care for Crimea or Donbass. Doesn't matter whom Crimea belongs to Russia or to Ukraine because there will be no Russia anymore. The Russian Federation now is pregnant with the new states like the late Soviet Union, the last empire in Europe would collapse, disintegrate. All the national republics will flee into the independency like Chechnya, Tatarstan, Yakuti, and so on. And I don't think that the new Putins in these new states, they would be happy to introduce”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Again, yeah, so people would say no, no, no democracy again. We have seen what is this enough, enough. We want to have order. And Russia, history would bite its tail again. And the West. The West would, you see, stretch the hand to the new Russian Putins. After the war, I mean after the defeat in this war, the war in Ukraine will last till Putin is in the Kremlin. This is the system. It cannot change. He cannot give up. Then we don't know how and when. Maybe in two weeks, maybe in two months, maybe in last year. But one day he will disappear. He has just three possibilities to disappear. He would die natural death. His friends would help him. His best friends, his closest friends, or he would flee to the Central African Republic.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, yes. So, and now this immigration, it is very bad for Russia's future, but it's very good for the regime. So who will make all the changes in Russia? For example, can you imagine the oppositional leaders now living in London or in the United States, in Vilnius, they would come to Russia and they will participate in the free elections. And for the voters, they are just traitors. They are traitors, foreign agents. And if there would be free election, people would have to choose between foreign agent and traitor and a hero fighting who fought in Ukraine against the Nazis and who would promise the order and foreign angels who would promise democracy.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everybody who is unhappy with us just go, just leave, borders are open. And in the last twenty years millions and millions of people high educated people, they left because they didn't see any future for them and their children in Russia. Look how smart was it from the regime. During the mobilization, they didn't close the borders. And everybody was telling why, why? So many young people just left Russia instead of going to the army. But can you imagine these hundred thousands of young people who hate Putin, who hate this regime, and they have Kalashnikovs in the arm? That would be an army inside Russia who would be willing the regime.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The same as your Kadyrov or the same governors who organized the false election or hundreds and hundreds of thousands of frightened teachers these women were falsifying the elections in Russia because the elections were to take part at school, they were situated at schools. We have to fulfill these conditions. Democracy needs critical mass of citizens who know what democracy is, how it works. Because now in Russia we have just these slaves of the regime. And I told you that this regime learned from the mistakes of the previous Soviet regime, the borders were open all the time. Medvedev, when he was a president, he said the famous words”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Russia will lose the war anyway, and I am very happy for Ukrainians. I wish the victory for them fighting the common enemy, and I try to do everything to support their fight. And they will win, and the whole world will help them to build up what Russian army destroyed. And they will build huge wall on the Russian border. But what will happen behind the walls? So I'm not optimistic at all. Look, who will destroy the Nazi state in Russia? But it's impossible who will organize the Nuremberg trials against war criminals. In Germany, they were Americans, they were allies. In Russia, who will do it, the war criminals themselves, who will organize the free selection?”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It must happen But what would happen? We have some conditions. We have seen how it happened in Germany after the Second World War. We had denazification. We had Nuremberger trials, the Nazi war machine was destroyed totally.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And one truth Your son is a fascist Ukrainians wanted to be independent, to build up a democratic society. They wanted just their freedom, and your son came as fascists, as aggressor killed people there, and you are the father of a fascist. Shame on you. The other truth Your son is a hero. The fascists there wanted to kill our Russian culture. They wanted to kill our children. They wanted to destroy our homeland. He is a real hero and you are the father of a hero. You must be proud of him. What truth would you choose?”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They accept this, it's impossible for human psychology to accept this. No, we want everybody wants to be good. You see, in the West, it's also maybe a mistake. People think the problem is with propaganda. Yes, of course, with war propaganda in Russia. But they think if there would be alternative sources of information, it would help. In Russia in the last 20, 15 years, we had this alternative sources of information. We had the oppositional TV channel rain, telecom doors. We had a mask, Echov Moscow, we had a lot of oppositional websites, so till the beginning of this invasion now in Russia we have nothing. And people could choose between these two kinds of truth. As example, can you imagine you have a son and your son was killed in Ukraine?”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was impossible for him maybe to realize that he was defending not his home country but the regime of Stalin who killed his father. He and all his generations, his comrades. After the war they were sure that they gave freedom to Europe, to Eastern Europe. It was their victory against the fascism, but they didn't realize that they brought to Europe, to Eastern Europe. kind of fascism, the Soviet fascism, that they were fascists too. It was impossible for them to accept or realize the same thing is now with the people, with Russians who support this war. This is a civilization gap. They think we Russians are good and they everywhere in the world, they won't just destroy us because we are good. Explain to these people that they are fascists.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And other tribes are our enemies. The evil. They want to destroy us. They want to kill us. So the whole life is just our fighting for our home country against the fascists from the NATO fascists from Ukraine. And every dictator misused this patiotic feelings. Stalin did this now the Russian Putin's propaganda misuses this feeling. And people are going, they think, they are going to defend their homeland from the Nazis, like our grandfathers did in the Second World War. And I told you about my father, his father, my grandfather, was killed by Stalin, and my father with eighteen, went to the war, fighting the Nazis, and he was Absolutely sure that he is fighting fascism defending his own country.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They are going to sacrifice their lives. How would you explain this? And explain this in my book. You see, I am the person in the 21st century, the whole development of human kind from people who ate each other, till constitution, till democracy. It makes the human person of our time, contemporary human person. It means I have the responsibility for the decision, what is good, what is evil. And if I see that my people, my country, are evil, I will be against my people, I will be against my country. But the majority in Russia, they mentally, psychologically, they live in the past, they identify themselves with a tribe. Our tribe is always good, we are good.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And to all people who protest they end very bad, very bad way. One year ago, when this invasion started, people in the West they couldn't understand, they just couldn't understand why there are so few protests in Russia just several people, a dozen people went to the streets to protest against the war and they were arrested. They are all in prison now. And we could explain it through this survival strategy I was talking about. People are afraid. Killing Ukrainians and dying, and it has nothing to do with the survival strategy.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's from the history we have just different history. Russia was the part of this golden horde and remained the golden horde. And this is just the social system which depends only on the power. Has no other idea, only the power, and so people who live in Russia, they cannot have their just private life, because if they want to achieve something, you have to join the gang, they have to join this power fighting. It's Russia is a great country for criminals who can become a president to be just on top of this criminal pyramid like Putin. And Russia is a very bad country for people who just want to have their private life, to have family, to have an interesting job, because earlier or later, they will have to make the choice. Do I join the gang, the huge gang of criminals, or should I just be against them? Should I protest?”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we were shouting Krim Nash, Krim Nash, Crimea's hours. And after that he had to prove his legitimization again and again with the small wars with great victories, and so he started this war in February last year because he was sure it will be just three days and a great success. But as every dictator he lost the connection to the reality, if he had known the reality he would never start this war, of course. But now we are in this war.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The reals are and the population in Russia, they still love him. Now, Garbachev, he lost the war in Afghanistan, he lost the Cold War against the West, he is a fake Tsar. People hate him. People despise him till now. And so for his legitimization, the new Tsar Putin had to win the war. And we remember how he started this war with explosions in Moscow. Houses, dwelling houses were blown up in Moscow. A lot of people died. And it was for him the way to start the war against Chechnya. It was like genocide war. And then he had to prove his legitimization through the next victory and was the annexation of Crimea. You remember 2014. All Russians were happy.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Had to prove his legitimization by a victory. You see, in Russia, people in the West who read the Russian classical, they think most important Russian questions are like eternal Russian questions who is to blame, what is to be done, like the title of the Russian classical novels. But these were internal questions just for a small amount of readers and 150 millions of peasants couldn't read. So for them, the main Russian question was, is the Tsar real or fake? Till now this is the same main Russian questions. And you can prove it only through the victory in a war. Stalin could kill millions and millions of people, but he won the war. He is the victorious Tsar. He proved to be.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of Swiss dictatorship here, but we have seen how dictatorship was established in Germany in the 20s, in Russia in 90s. The dictatorship starts with the willing, with the longing of the whole population for the order we had chaos, we had anarchy, and for people, the only way to the order was just a strong hand. It was with Hitler in this way. And Yeltsin realized it was anarchy and chaos in the nineties and Yeltsin realized he wants to be this strong hand, he wants to be the dictator, and he started this small, victorious war against Chichina. His generals told him, Oh, we will take Grozny in two hours. He was a loser. He lost this war. And so the next dictator, the next.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Power and the new criminal dictatorship which came in Russia which aroused in Russia in late 90s they didn't need people at all they just sold oil and gas to the west got the money why should they have to share the money with the population no they just took the money for themselves that was the idea of the criminal dictatorship at that time And so after that, when the real dictatorship arose and how did it happen, you see, the dictatorship begins not with the dictator. It's impossible to imagine a guy here in Switzerland, in Bern, the Bundesplatz, who would come and say, Swiss people, now I'm your dictator. Listen to me. They would tell him Fakov. That will be the end.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you have huge amount of money, there is no low state anymore. And so that was the main mistake of the West, because thanks to this absence of real democracy in the West, Russians started to build up the criminal new criminal dictatorship in Russia without this helping from the West. It would not be possible. And they established a very specific criminal dictatorship with open borders. You see, they learned from the mistakes of the previous dictatorship, from the Soviet Union. I grew up in a prison. It was a country which was a prison behind barbed wire. It was impossible to leave the country because the power needed the slaves. We were all slaves of that Soviet.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Had just to show on their own example how democracy works, what is law state. Here we have laws, and if you break the law, you go to prison. Doesn't matter, are you Russians, Swiss citizenship from America, doesn't matter. This is the law. Don't break the law. In 90s, I used to work as an interpreter here in Switzerland, also for Russians who for new rich Russians who came with their dirty money to Switzerland to open the account. And I saw how this huge laundry for dirty money from Russia works. Lawyers, people from Swiss banks, they were all happy to get this dirty money, and they were aware that this money is dirty, so they broke the law. And Russians realized what is democracy.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the main mistake was made in the early 90s. The main mistake of the West was that they couldn't really help the new Russian democracy to be established in Russia. How should the West Democratic countries in the West, how should they help new Russian Democrats? Because you see, in Russia it was time of possibilities. In the late Soviet Union, people were ready for Western kind of democracy, Western art of democracy. Russians had no idea of law state, how democracy works, but they saw American movies and they wanted also to have this democracy in Russia, but for them it was altogether, you see like free elections and American cars and McDonald's and Constitution, and so the Western democracy.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who were people in charge for building up the democratic society, people from KGB, people from the Communist Party? Can you imagine Germany 1945, the new beginning, but who would be responsible for the building, for the introducing democracy in the afterworld Germany? Gestapo, Gehaimestadzpolitzai, people from Gestapo. It would be impossible. But in Russia, it was the reality. So it was just the matter of time when the new dictatorship would be established. And any dictatorship, just the nature of any dictatorship is to have enemies, to have a war. What we have now, we have all the world of enemies, and we have the war.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our zero, and we will join the democratic countries, we will build a new democratic Russia. And these days there were a lot of Western television companies on the streets of Moscow, and I remember a German TV team just wanted to make interviews with Russians on the streets, and so they were happy they could tell them some words in German. And I told them, I'm happy that my son, Misha, He is three years old. I'm happy that he will grow up in a free democratic Russia. Now all my children are in emigration, you see. It was the time of disappointments after that because from the very beginning it went in the wrong way. In Russia there were no Nuremberg trials against the Communist Party. There were no destinies.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Grammar, but besides German grammar, maybe I taught them some things which were more important than German grammar. And so it was our personal victory against this regime. And it was time of great hopes because for me it was clear all this bloody experience of Russian history must end. It will be just the new beginning.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For people here in the West who were so fond of Gorbachev, they were so fond of Putin, they had great hopes. I had great hopes only during the so-called August Putsch in 1991, when the Soviet Union disappeared, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was also my personal victory because I was on the barricades and around the White House in Moscow. It was summer and I was a teacher at that time and it was vacations. And when I came to the barricades, first I saw my guys, my boys from my class, they were fourteen, fifteen, and it was the happiest moment of my life. So I realized maybe I was not a bad teacher. I told them to German.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is just the part of my book. I tried to explain how Russia works with the examples of my family story. Going way back generations before under Tsarism, things haven't changed that much. It's just an example of one family, but in Russia, every family has such stories and repeats for generations. And for me, it was very important to write this book and to explain to people that we are making the same mistake again and again. I mean people in the West, I wrote this book not for Russians. Russians understand what is Russia about.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And good luck. My grandma, when she was old already, over ninety, she was blind already. She spent the whole days sitting in a dark room in the apartment of my father. And I just tried to call her, to call her per telephon, to say, hey, Babushka, my grandma, how are you? And for her, that day when her husband was arrested, it was repeating and repeating all the time, and then she started to talk to me on the telephone Misha Misha, why are they arresting you? I tried to explain to her grandma, it's meamisha but she couldn't she was already that day again and again she was shouting telephone please why do you take him away? We didn't do anything bad please Misha Misha”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It works. So, just one example in the book I describe how it showed the strategy of survival, how it works, how it worked in my family. During the collectivization to nineteen thirty, my grandma lived with her husband Mikhail Shushkin. I was named after him with two small children. One of the boys was my father. And so people with weapons came to take the cow and all other peasants, all our people, they were they kept silent. And my grandfather just started to shout Hey, what are you doing? Why do you take my cow away? I have two small children. I need the cow. He was arrested. He died in Gulak, in Siberia and saw how it works. Other people survive where they just obey to the power and they survive. And who is against who tries to speak?”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We are now in this catastrophe. We are now in this war thanks to all people who were writing thick books explaining why we have to build bridges to Putin's dictatorship, to build bridges to whom? To this criminal gang, who took hostage the whole country. And so I wanted to write a book explaining Russia, explaining this war. And I wrote this book explaining Russia through the history and through the family history, my personal family history. Because if you just make a statement in Russia, people are afraid of saying something. The silent keeping silent is the strategy of survival for generations. It's true, but it's not enough. In a book you have to show how...”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why is it so different? Why is it so difficult just to join the world? Why is it so impossible to join the human civilization? And so you have to answer these questions just through the history, just learning what was before. How was it possible that Russia became this impossible part of the universe? And last 10, 15 years I tried to read books written by the Western Russian experts explaining Russia. You see the Western politicians they have no idea of Russia. It's okay, it's normal. But to deal with Russia, they have to get some knowledge of Russia. And so they read or listen to Russian experts. Thank you.”
2023-05-12 · Intelligence Squared · Is Russia Doomed By Its History? with Mikhail Shishkin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exile. His father is Russian and his mother was Ukrainian, which gives him a particular insight into current issues and the current conflict in Ukraine. His latest book, My Russia, War or Peace, is a passionate cry about the state of his homeland. And it is a beautifully written book. So now I'll proceed to get into the heart of the matter and talk with Mikhail, whose book Very skillfully traces the essential problem throughout Russian history, which has been an ever-repeating cycle of one ghastly despotism replaced by another equally ghastly. So I'll ask I think that began and why it has continued for hundreds of years. First of all, thank you very much for having invited me. So, how did I come to this book? Actually through my whole life, you cannot live in Russia without asking questions. Why?”
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“Is one of the most prominent Russian writers of his generation and he's the only Russian author to have won all the three top prizes, literary prizes in Russia, the Booker Prize, the bestseller, national bestseller award and the big book prize. His novels, which include The Taking of Ismail and Maiden Hare, brilliant books both, have won numerous international literary prizes and awards, and they've been translated into more than 30 languages. He's been a prolific journalist also, and he's written for international publications throughout the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian Here and Le Monde. He has lived in Switzerland since 1995 in”
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