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The Russian Literary Festival in London gave ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Russian's arts and culture correspondent, Alexander Kan, a chance to talk to some of the big names among contemporary writers. He shares his favourites, including Boris Akunin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Victor Pelevin and Dmitry Glukhovsky, and treats us to a reading from Vladimir Sorokin's The Day of the Oprichnik. (Photo: Russian bear sitting at a table) (Credit: Samuil_Levich/Thinkstock Images)
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