“Are you reading?” – they asked Budanov.
“Of course. The last one is Tony Jud’s “After the War”. I really respect and like the book “The Invisible Force”. Burns wrote it, in fact, I’ve already read it several times,” Budanov said.
Budanov admitted that his friends recently gave him a poetry collection, “So No One Has Cohaved: An Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry about Cohaan.”
“My wife and I made it a rule in the evenings to periodically read a poem,” he noted. “And from fiction [литературы] for the last almost four years, I have fallen out of this segment a little, as they say.”
According to Budanov, when he has free time, he tries to read, and his wife can read a book in a day. When asked how many books he has at home, Budanov did not say the number, but emphasized that “quite a lot.”
Commenting on clarifying questions, he assured that it was more than a hundred, but less than a thousand.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate admitted that as a child he liked the story “The Gray Neck”, authored by the Russian writer Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak.
