Navalny and Putin: The Two Poles of Russia

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One of today’s most prominent Russian writers and commentators, Victor Erofeev left Russia in 2022 and lives now in Germany where he is a professor of literature at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. His collection of essays Naked Russia (2023) focuses on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and his most recent novel The Great Gopnik (2023) considers his life and that of Putin. He was expelled from the Writer’s Union in the Soviet Union in 1979 for his work with the nonconformist literary almanac Metropol. His latest protest anthology VYKHOD (2022) features Russian nonconformist writers, many of whom have left Russia. Globally acclaimed for his novel Russian Beauty (1989), he is the author too of the provocative Encyclopedia of the Russian Soul (1999). Among his many awards are the French Legion d’Honneur and Ordre d’Art et Letters , and the Polish Kommandor Cross.