Red Square Book Festival kicks off in Moscow
The "Red Square" book festival kicked off in the Russian capital, Moscow, from June 17-20.
The head of the festival's organizing committee, Vladimir Grigoriev, indicated that the festival program, which is held taking into account all precautionary measures, includes more than 500 cultural events with the participation of 300 printing and publishing houses representing 45 Russian regions.
The days of the festival include meetings with writers and writers, discussions on various literary and cultural topics, in addition to parties to present new books.
The festival will also celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of 19th century Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Nekrasov, and the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize laureate scientist and politician Andrei Sakharov.
The "Red Square" festival is a meeting place between publishers, writers, artists, musicians and readers, and includes sections such as "artistic literature", school literature, children's literature, "e-book" and others.
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