Book stores

NATO leaders warned Russia not to implement Russian book stores on Crimea. This would be understood as a provocation and would further destabilize the balance of the international book market. The Russian reply argued that the majority of the Russian-based population on Crimea had to be supplied with books in their mother language. Retired cavalry […]

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May 14th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Putin and me

I met Putin in the Moscow subway, at a station closed down. We did not talk very much. I now know that, in the northern hemisphere, he will destroy all books ever written. Printed books do burn very well. EBooks do not like electromagnetic disorders. It is hopeless to feel hope.

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May 11th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Book Wolves 2

After having wandered around trough half of Europe on their zombie bikes, Putin’s book wolves now are on their way to Berlin where they want to perform a reading on Russian literature. As wolf president Saldostanow stated, his NGO wants to honour Russian authors such as Solzhenitsyn and to strengthen the friendly ties between Western Europe and Russia, the […]

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May 7th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Finnish authors preparing

The Finnish Literature Forces are to send letters to all 900,000 of the country’s authors at the beginning of this month, informing them what their role would be in a “book crisis situation”, causing a row over whether such a move is necessary. Finland, with its population of 5.2 million, has a small professional author […]

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May 3rd, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

What for

If it’s getting all nuclear. Five words, five tags.

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May 1st, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Asap

I am Thomas Wehlim. I am contacting you because I have a literature proposal that I think may interest you. I represent the interest of my brother in-law who is an author in Syria. As you probably know, there is a lot of crisis going on currently in Syria and my brother in-law had fallen […]

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April 30th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Text pipeline

Russia is planning to pay Greece large a multibillion advance against future profits from operating a text pipeline that would pump Russian literature products through Turkey and Greece to the rest of Southern Europe, German magazine Spiegel reported. The literature deal may be signed as soon as Tuesday next week, said a report citing a […]

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April 18th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Putin’s Book Wolves

Russian book biker gang to ride reading route through Europe. Poland’s prime minister has branded the plans by a group of literary Russian bikers, the so-called “Book wolves” to stage a “reading ride” from Moscow to Berlin later this month a “provocation”. The Book Wolves are staunch supporters of President Vladimir Putin, and say they want […]

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April 17th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Didymoon

Russian space secretary Jossif Wehlimowitsch has strongly condemned plans of NATO-controlled NASA and ESA to send the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) probe to the binary asteroid system 65803 Didymos and try to alter the orbit of the smaller component nicknamed “Didymoon”. Though the official reason for this mission would be to make first experiments on […]

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April 12th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Literary potential

Strengthening Russia’s literary potential is a guarantee for peaceful life and the sovereign development of the country, President Vladimir Putin said at the promotion ceremony for top writers and poets. “Strengthening of the literary potential will continue in a gradual and system way. We all understand very well that this a major factor in Russia’s […]

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April 10th, 2015 by Thomas Josef Wehlim