Dialogues on a Volcano: 2014-2024 To mark the 10th anniversary of the smart club of the Open City magazine, a book by journalists Tatyana Fast and Vladimir Vigman was published. In 2014, Riga journalists created a discussion platform for meetings with famous writers, political scientists, diplomats, actors... Since then, about a hundred speakers from different countries have spoken at the smart club: Latvia, Israel, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Switzerland ... If you collected the recordings of all the meetings, you would get a multi-volume volume. This collection includes 30 meetings, including with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, actress Chulpan Khamatova, poet Igor Guberman, writer Alexander Genis, etc. From year to year, guests of the smart club analyzed the changes that were taking place in the large Eastern European space, including Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries. Some speakers can rightfully be called Nostradamus... The book is called “Dialogues on a Volcano.” Why on a volcano? Yes, because for all these 10 years Latvia has been living next to an open crater and a feeling of danger: will it explode or not? And now the club’s think tank is in full swing; together with new guests, journalists are trying to understand the principle of operation of this volcano, predict the direction of movement of the hot lava...
