He examines the programme. Here is a list of the presentations at the plenary. The last one is by a woman from Ukraine. Tatiana Maroukhina. The nerve of existence of small nations. Hell’s bells, there’s a topic for you! What’s her name? There’s never been anything like that before. He reads more carefully… These Slavonic surnames transliterated into the Roman alphabet aren’t always transparent, not even to his experienced eye. Tatiana Ma-rou… Right, now he has to read the presentation by the Bulgarian who gave him the text in Russian but who will speak from the rostrum in Bulgarian… That item is finished now. Now other interpreters will take over, and he will read more closely who this speaker from Ukraine is… … If all this is being filmed for some cosmic archives of events, let the sound

