Scandal in "Booker"

At the award ceremony, "Booker - Open Russia" scandal. Jury chairman Vasily Aksenov refused to declare the winner, saying that he personally does not like this book.

However, the winner in the end was still named. They became Denis Gutsko. In his novel, "No way-footprint", he talks about the legal vulnerability of former Soviet citizens who wish to obtain Russian citizenship.

And besides triumph for the award this year claimed as Boris Evseev, Oleg Ermakov, Anatoly Naiman, Helen Chizhov and Roman Solntsev, said "TVC".

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