From right: Yevgeny Sidorov, literary critic and chairman of the Russian Booker competition jury, Prof.Igor Shaitanov, literary secretary of the competition committee, critic and associate of the Russian State University, and George Walden, British journalist, penman and career diplomat, after news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which made public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347204
News conference at the Golden Ring Hotel makes public 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347203
Russian State University Professor Igor Shaitanov, literary critic, literary secretary of the Russia Booker competition committee, attends news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347202
British journalist, penman and diplomat George Walden attends news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347201
Literary critic Yevgeny Sidorov, the chairman of the Russian Booker competition jury, attends news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347200
From right: Yevgeny Sidorov, literary critic and chairman of the Russian Booker competition jury, and Igor Shaitanov, literary secretary of the competition committee, critic and professor of the Russian State University, attend news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347199
Actress Yevgeniya Simonova, member of th4e Russian Booker competition jury, after news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which made public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language.02.10.2008#347198
Writer Leonid Yuzefovich, member of the Russian Booker competition jury, attends news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language.02.10.2008#347197
British journalist, penman and career diplomat George Walden, chairman of the Russian Booker committee, and Prof. Igor Shaitanov, literary secretary of the competition committee, critic and associate of the Russian State University, attend news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347196
Writer Alexander Kabakov to attend news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public the 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language.02.10.2008#347195
Yevgeny Sidorov, the chairmn of the Russian Booker competition jury, attends news conference at the Golden Ring Hotel which makes public 2008 Open Russian Booker Literary Prize finalists with the best novel in the Russian language. These are Ilya Boyashov ("Armada"), Mikhail Yelizarov ("The Librarian"), Yelena Nekrasova ("Shchukinsk and Cities), Gherman Sadulayev ("The Pill"), Vladimir Sharov ("Be like Children") and Galina Shchekina ("The Pulp-Writer"). The name of the Russian Booker prize winner to receive $20,000 will become known on December 3, 2008.02.10.2008#347194