Akunin refused to meet with Putin at the Russian literary assembly

The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) refused to participate in the Russian literary assembly. He reported this on the blog. Akunin explained his refusal to be in the same room with President Vladimir Putin.

“While there are political prisoners in the country, to be near the ruler, just even in the same room with him, I can’t. It would mean that I consider it possible to listen to speeches about the beautiful, emanating from the person who holds people in prison for their political beliefs,” Akunin writes. agrees with his methods of government. "

Akunin is ready to meet with Putin no earlier than all the political prisoners are released. “Here they promise an ambulance amnesty. Let's see if it will spread to the prisoners on May 6. We will see if the third business of Khodorkovsky will start. Let's see if Nadezhda Tolokonnikov and Maria Alekhina will be released,” the writer notes.

At the same time, Akunin does not condemn colleagues who agreed to participate in the meeting. “I also believe in the theory of small affairs and is also curious. But as I recall Sergey Krivov, who holds a hunger strike for the second month and loses consciousness in the courtroom, and they don’t let him out of an ambulance, all my curiosity disappears,” he writes.

The Russian Literary Assembly will be held on November 21 at the initiative of the presidential administration, in particular, the presidential adviser to the culture of Vladimir Tolstoy. The meeting in the form of sectional meetings is designed to help the professional community "build literary problems in the system." Including at the meetings, problems will be discussed related to the fall of the general level of humanitarian knowledge and reducing the quality and volume of literature teaching.

More than 500 participants were invited to participate in the meeting. Among them are writers, literary critics, translators, teachers, museum workers, book publishers, librarians and theater figures. Putin was invited to the general plenary meeting.