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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;
mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">My questions include:
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">1. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You started your mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">Diary of an Invasion just
before New Year at the very end of 2021. Do you always keep a diary?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">2. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">What emotions did you feel when you learnt what had
happened on February 24th?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">3. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">How do you see the role of the writer during the
war?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">4. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Before the invasion, your remarks in the padding:0cm">Diary about Ukraine and your Ukrainian compatriots
are quite multifaceted. But after you tend to write about them as if they were
figures from Ukrainian historical myths (‘bylinas’) – how brave, freedom-loving
they are, and how different they are from the Russians. It is as if those human
traits that make your novels so memorable and touching aren’t relevant here.
What explains that change?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">5. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You write about the traditions of the Ukrainian
people and the creation of myths in times of crisis. What is the role of
traditions and myths in the identity of a people?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">6. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Your native language, in which you became a famous
writer, is Russian. Have you ever had any problems in your relations with
Ukrainian writers or the public because of it?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">7. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">What is your attitude to the Russian language in
Ukraine now?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">8. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">How do Russians around the world react to your advocacy
for Ukraine – do you get hate mail from Russians?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">9. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Do you see the possibility for Russian-speaking
Ukrainians to write in Russian again in the future?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">10. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You write in your mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">Diary that you
have an unfinished novel… will you be able to finish it or is it doomed to
remain in the unfinished after the Russian invasion?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">11. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Do you believe in the concept of ‘good Russians’?
Who is a ‘good Russian’ for you?
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mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">12. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Has Russian culture played a major role in your own
development as a writer?
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">13. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Are there any commonalities between Russian and
Ukrainian culture and traditions? (You write in the padding:0cm">Diary about the feat of Russian PR in promoting
Russian culture around the world, as if Russian culture would not be so highly
regarded without it.)
"Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none; mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">14. "Times New Roman";color:#3D3D3D;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none; mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">How do you see the future of Ukraine? And of Russia?