Russian Writer Evgeny Chizhov: Writers Should Stay away from Both Authorities and Opposition

... politics — politics should serve the artist. As a field in which a person can manifest themselves in an unexpected way, politics is of the same interest as any other aspect of life. Now that you cannot get rid of it, you need to use it. Does Russian literature still exist as a uniform phenomenon, or has it been split into isolated regional exclaves, such as in Ukraine, Central Asia, the Baltic States, further abroad, and so on? As far as I know, it is the opposite. Unlike Soviet times, at present there is virtually no interest in Russian literature outside of Russia. In a recent interview, Dina Rubina says that in her ...