04-Nov-2008, 23:06
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,433
Reading: Der Mann mit der Hundenase (stories), Regīna Ezera
Translator: Welta Ehlert
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Re: Georgian Literature
I posted the following, on 22nd October, on the thread devoted to Boris Akunin. I'm not going to get involved here in the politics of Georgia versus Russia, as the situation dates back to 1995 or so, but Mr Akunin appears to have gone on a prison visit recently:
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Not read any much more about Fandorin on the book pages, but this curious information was in the International Herald Tribune on October 20th:
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This month marks five years since Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was seized in his private plane at the Novosibirsk airport. He was subsequently convicted of fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in labor camp, and his oil company, Yukos, was dismantled and sold off to Kremlin loyalists.
Now 45, Khodorkovsky was denied parole in August on the grounds that he had not been attending sewing classes at his labor camp in the Russian Far East. Earlier this month, his lawyers said he was put in solitary confinement for 12 days for giving a written interview to the Russian edition of Esquire magazine.
The interviewer was Grigory Chkhartishvili, who, under the pen name Boris Akunin, is one of the most popular writers in Russia today. He said many people asked him why he was making a fuss about an oligarch who, after all, didn't get fabulously rich by always obeying the law.
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Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe a case for Fandorin to sort out in Akunin's new crime novel called "The Oligarch Who Missed Sewing Classes".
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