Archpriest Michael Dudko spoke at the conference "Pushkin in Britain"

A panel discussion conference was organised as part of the largest contest among the Russian poets living abroad. The presentation "A poet in God's World" was dedicated to Pushkin's spiritual path.

Among those who spoke at the conference were Evgeny Sidorov, the Russian ex-minster of culture who now chairs the Writers' Council in Moscow, Ekaterina Geniyeva, the director of the Russian State Library of foreign literature, Sir Anthony Brenton, HM Ambassador in Russia (2004-2008).