[Author] A. D. Baranov [Title] On $L^1$-norms of meromorphic functions with fixed poles [AMS Subj-class] 30D50 Blaschke products, bounded mean oscillation, bounded characteristic, bounded functions, functions with positive real part 30D55 $H^p$-classes 46E15 Banach spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions 47B38 Operators on function spaces (general) [Abstract] We study boundedness of the differentiation and embedding operators in the shift-coinvariant subspaces $K_B^1$ generated by Blaschke products with sparse zeros, that is, in the spaces of meromorphic functions with fixed poles in the lower half-plane endowed with $L^1$-norm. We answer negatively the question of K. M. Dyakonov about the necessity of the condition $B'\in L^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ for the boundedness of the differentiation on $K_B^1$. Our main tool is a construction of an unconditional basis of rational fractions in $K_B^1$. [Keywords] Blaschke products, shift-coinvariant subspaces, Bernstein's inequality, unconditional basis [Comments] LaTeX, English, 15 pp. [Contact e-mail] antonbaranov@netscape.net d.baranov@pop.ioffe.rssi.ru