Vladimir Putin and Russia’s screwed generation | Brief letters

Generation P | Photobombing in the Musee d'Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks

You say that young Russians are often referred to as GenerationP' for having lived only under Putin's presidency" (He couldn't wait to join': thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war, 29 May). However, the phrase was coined in the title of a Russian novel published in 1999 - a year before Vladimir Putin first became president. Its author, Victor Pelevin, says the P referred to Pizdets, sometimes translated as the generation who were screwed".
Paul Moss
London

On a recent trip to the Musee d'Orsay (Letters, 3 June), I was so fed up with people standing in front of paintings taking selfies that I started photobombing. There must be people over the world wondering: who is that mad old woman with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory?
Lillian Adams
Hereford