Photograph of Yevgeni Popov, on the left, founding member and president of the Russian Centre (2017-18), and Aleksei Simonov, member of the Russian Centre, on the right, at a literary event held in honour of the writer Viktor Astafyev and his novel Прокляты и убиты (The Cursed and Killed). This event was oragnised by the Russian Centre and held in Moscow in 2010.