BAKU INT’L FESTIVAL OF RUSSIAN BOOK ENDS
Earlier today, well-known known literary men, prose writers and poets participating in the 1st International Festival of Russian Book gathered at the Baku Slavonic University to meet with its teaching staff and students.
Renowned Kirghiz writer Chingiz Aytmatov described a book as a “concentration of knowledge and culture, and can never be replaced by a TV-set or computer.” “As for the Russian book, even if not a single sign in Russian is seen on the streets, Russian language for us has always been and remains the first means to go beyond our national bounds. My books became internationally know just thanks to the Russian language,” he said.
The participants to the 1st International Festival of Russian Book today have also held at the Ataturk Center in Baku a “round table discussion” on the theme Connection of the Times in the Russian and Azeri Literature.
“We all are well aware that history of the Turkic nations is closely connected with that of Slavonic nations, in particular, Russia. That’s why we are talking about a Russian book that is very important to us, Turkologists,” said Head of the Center, President of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, MP Nizami Hafarov.
The discussion attended by Russian writers and those writing in Russian language from Finland, Spain, Greece, Israel, Uzbekistan and other countries, also focused on publication of the their books in Azerbaijan.
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