Words of solidarity

More than a hundred writers, journalists and other cultural figures turned to Russian political prisoners with a letter of solidarity.

Political prisoners of Russia, prisoners of conscience

Friends! Far and loved ones, well -known to us and those whose names we know only from the press languishing in prisons and colonies and still waiting for the trial in investigative insulators, please know, you are not alone, not forgotten: they remember you and are waiting for you.

Every day, in any weather in many cities throughout the country: in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Kazan, Novosibirsk and Dubna, Rostov-on-Don, Ivanov and Nizhny Novgorod-we go into pickets, demanding your freedom. Every Friday, hundreds of picketers in Moscow and St. Petersburg are standing at the metro stations with the requirements of justice and freedom for you. And this weekly picket becomes traditional in other cities of Russia.

Every day on the Internet, we are distributing the truth about you, about the accusations to you, about their illegality, about the unlawfulness of your sentences. Every day we are looking for and find ways to help your family and friends.

We hope that our today's appeal will one way or another come to each of you in a prison camera or in a camp barak and you will once again see that you are not alone, that dozens and hundreds of people are constantly thinking about your fate, about your future, and do everything that, in their power, for the sake of your and our freedom, in a desire and the hope of bringing our meeting in the will.

The future is behind us!

Among the signed are Lev Timofeev, Sergey Gandlevsky, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Alexander Podrabinek, Natalya Mavelvich, Konstantin Azadovsky, Zoya Svetova, Maria Stepanova, Mikhail Aizenberg, Alexey Slapovsky, Tatyana Shcherbina, Maria Galina, Maya Kucherskaya, Anton Batagov.

Signatures under the appeal - on the COLTA website

The collection of signatures continues on Facebook

The next day, Russian scientists and scientific journalists published a statement about the verdict to the defendants of the case of the "network" .