signs of gloom and doom of the likes of book for despite the fact that a major german book wholesaler recently the clear bankruptcy turnover of stock meant but this time the book fair is bigger and more international than ever. channel is making its debut here with publishers from across the country and they ve brought along books in a wide variety of genres. if the first time here i am so i think i d like to think is open to public so it s interesting to get to meet their readers i think it s also the place where. the new book are really every year so i it s good to be there and to feel the trends and. readers can meet their favorite authors and then my. in frankfurt stock up on books
i you know i was i was i was so drawn to that that i just wanted to stay and keep writing that story and for most of the ninety s i did for most of the ninety s i felt that every story i wrote was a new story no one had written before i mean that s that s an amazing thing for a journalist to experience. then after a tumultuous decade president yeltsin presented x. k.g.b. officer vladimir putin as the country s new prime minister he vowed to return russia to its former greatness critics were silenced in twenty eleven when thousands protested against an allegedly rigged parliamentary election musher guess it was out on the front lines and had to leave russia as a result i think it was my participation in the protests. and my being very out as a queer person i had been publicly out for many many years. and it had never been a problem until the kremlin launched its anti-gay campaign in two thousand and twelve. then i suddenly became a problem and the reason i had to leave was because my fa
fifteen he called the wave of refugees flooding into europe and organized invasion . yochim top i was shocked when zimmerman was elected president he always fought for a truly free country both before ninety nine and after as a writer journalist and since twenty eleven as program director of the pov of the library. of history is like a huge pendulum with its one as high to one side as possible now it s right at the bottom but i hope we ll reach the other side again this is. what s czechoslovakia s last president and the first president of the czech republic after slovakia seceded in one thousand nine hundred three a former dissident hovel was also a celebrated writer and a moral authority. he personally brought you to the pov a library shortly before his death his twenty eleven. kopel stayed on and continues
threatened. with the removal of my oldest son who is adopted from the family in two thousand and thirteen guests and her partner and their three children relocated to new york since then she has spoken out publicly about putin s hunger for power and the irony of history that the us is now governed by a president who sees himself as a friend of putin however i mean there is no comparison right russia is supposed to tell a turn country and the united states is is a weak and dysfunctional democracy. those are vastly different systems. against its book focuses on russia under putin. it pulls no punches and now it is one of the twenty nine thousand lights the book fair award for european understand .