October, 25th. Writer Guy Mettan (Switzerland) gave a lecture «Look from the West: Russophobia from Charles the Great prior to the last Olympic Games in Rio» in the reading room of scientific library named after D.Granin.

Guy Mettan is journalist and Swiss politician, regular columnist of the leading French-language newspapers in Switzerland, author about a dozen books on urgent problems of the national and international relations. His speeches and publications steadily cause a big resonance. Guy Mettan's book "Russia and the West: A Thousand Years War" – is a fundamental work investigating a russophobia problem at the scientific level for the first time in the history.

The lecture was held in French with the simultaneous interpretation.

Publication date: 26 december 2016