The Ministry of Digital Development will develop a single professional standard for authors. It is reported by TASS. The working group that will deal with this issue will be chaired by the rector of the Gorky Literary Institute Alexei Varlamov. In addition to him, it will include Svetlana Vasilenko, first secretary of the Russian Writers Union, and Nikolai Ivanov, chairman of the board of the Russian Writers Union. There are no well-known Russian writers in the working group.

Russian writers reacted with surprise to such an attempt.

— Writer and playwright Denis Dragunsky commented on Business FM.

The author, playwright, head of the public council of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yevgeny Grishkovets, said it was insane and “absolute know-how” to set a standard for writers. Mikhail Vizel, editor-in-chief and literary critic of the Year of Literature portal, noted that a writer in Russia is a “vulnerable person”: screenwriters and writers often complain about copyright infringement. The Ministry of Digital Development noted that innovations will not affect the creative process, but only the legal side. – Commented on the FM Department of Business.