The Kremlin’s censorship is meeting with cautious but clear resistance from Russia’s literary community. It’s not only professionals who are invited to take part, but readers too.

Russia’s new generation of writers are predominantly female, more regional than imperial in their outlook, and embrace diversity of form.

The publication of Russian-language writers abroad is unlikely to be very successful in the long term. An author’s main objective is to be read, and that is more easily accomplished inside Russia.