In Tomsk, some "district congress" pronounced Siberia an independent republic. How many republics do we have now: Ukrainian, Finnish, Caucasian, Estonian, Siberian, Bessarabian... are there any more?
Reading 88 modern poems, selected by Z.N Gippus, I wrote a critical note, I think it is very successful and I really want it to be published somewhere. Although I am very doubtful of the success of this desire: there’s no malice in this desire, of course, but there is an irony in relation to the “authoritative collector”.