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"Hiding repression is the same as denying the Holocaust"
Letter of cultural figures in defense of the "International Memorial"*
These days, the fate of the International Memorial society*is being decided in Russia, which has been exploring the history of crimes and massive human rights committed by totalitarian regimes in the past for many years. During this time, documents, letters, diaries, photographs have been collected, allowing you to see how many people died and suffered in camps, how a repression machine worked, as well as learn lessons from what happened.
To hide from the public the history of totalitarian repressions in the 20th century is equivalent to the denial of the Holocaust, which is recognized as a crime in most civilized countries, including in Russia.
Today, the International Memorial is subjected to lawless persecution, his events are broken by raiders, he faces closing through the court on far -fetched grounds.
We urge the Russian authorities and the President of the Russian Federation to preserve the “International Memorial” and not to prevent its employees from fulfilling a mission that is important not only for Russian citizens, but also for all of humanity.
Signatures
Tom Stoppard
playwright
The collective memory of society is the best guarantee from repeating the worst pages of history. The attack on the International Memorial is a memory attack. The question arises: who is beneficial to bury the past?
Stephen Fry, actor, writer
John Maxwell Kutzeee, writer
Etgar Keret, director, writer
Scheng Schemeen, historian, writer
Gidon Kremer, musician
Oleg Basilashvili, actor
Leonid Tennikov, composer
Benjamin Smekhov, artist
Evgeny Kisin, musician
Elena Koreneva, actress
Yuri Norshtein, director
Leonid Parfyonov, journalist
Alexander Cott, director
Andrey Makarevich, musician
Vladimir Pozner, journalist
Polina Ossetian, musician
Oleg Dorman, director
Leo Rubinstein, poet
Natalia Tenyakova, actress
Evgeny Grishkovets, writer, director, actor
Natasha Barbier, journalist
Dmitry Bykov, writer
Alexey Tsvetkov, poet
Vladimir Druk, poet
Linor Goralik, writer
Danila Halperovich, journalist
Joseph Reichelgaus, director
Alexey Merinov, artist
Leonid Yarmolnik, artist
Olga Sedakova, poet
Alexey Uminsky, priest
Chulpan Khamatova, actress
Alexander Gelman, playwright
Veronica Valley, musician
Yakov Gordin, writer, historian
Daria Yurskaya, actress
Andrey Plakhov, film critic
Elena Yakovich, director, screenwriter
Dmitry Vedenyapin, poet
Sergey Yakovlev, writer
Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic
Julia Aug, actress
Alexey Gostintsev, artist
Andrey Dmitriev, writer
Mikhail Germans, poet
Evgeny Sidorov, writer
Vitaliy Pudkhanov, Director of the Prize "Poetry"
Natalia Gromova, writer
Dina Magomedova, philologist
Igor Satanovsky, poet, editor
Evgeny Babushkin, writer
Alexander thought, poet, guide
Maria Slonim, journalist
Grigory Ryazhsky, writer
Larisa Usova, journalist
Kira Dolinina, art critic
Andrey Monastyrsky, artist
Natalia Sterkina, writer, journalist
Vadim Zhuk, writer
Ekaterina Barabash, journalist
Elena Trishina, journalist
Dmitry Gutov, artist
Sergey Beloglazov, pianist
Inna Kravchenko, editor
Elena Lungina, art critic
Denis Dragunsky, writer, journalist
Natalia Isaeva, philosopher, theater historian
Ekaterina Drobyazko, editor, journalist
Julia Trubikhina, literary critic, teacher
Alexey Sosna, poet
Masha Shakhova, journalist
Sergey Kozlov, cultural historian
Alexey Gorbunov, galleryman
Andrey Krasilnikov, writer
Evelina Shatz, poet
Vladimir Kolyazin, Theater historian, translator
Irina Denisova, art critic
Pavel Lember, writer
Vladimir Ryabokon Ribopier, poet
Natalia Sterkina, writer, teacher
German Vinogradov, poet, artist
Anna Arkatova, poet
Sima Vasilieva, artist
Vitaly Starikov, pianist
Olga Sondberk, writer, critic
Natalia Rurikova, Galerist, editor
Arina Borodina, journalist
Tamara Kandala, writer, playwright
Evgeny Sominsky, writer
Pavel Litvinov, human rights activist
Svetlana Nadler, musician
Yuri Avvakumov, architect
Ilya Avramenko, Kinoperman
Yuri Maryamov, journalist
Ksenia Larina, journalist
Tatyana Malkina, journalist
Anatoly White, actor
Valery Sirovsky, translator, artist, writer
Svetlana Semina, editor of TV
Gennady Kanevsky, poet, editor
Olga Medvedkova, writer
Leonid Pavlyuchik, journalist, film critic
Anatoly Skachkov, director
Lyuba Makarevskaya, poetess, writer
Olga Bugoslavskaya, literary critic
Alla Shenderova, journalist, theater critic
Pavel Spivakovsky, philologist
Sergey Lebedev, writer
Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer
Tatyana Lieberman, photo editor
Tatyana Retivova, publisher
Pavel Gelman, playwright, writer
Kirill Kutalov, writer
Maria Sneova, political scientist
Elena Shagoyan, editor
Alena Kirtsova, artist
Dmitry Yevtushenko, artist
Igor Pivovich, actor
Irina Zve, journalist
Sergey Odovnov, curator, writer
Andrey Olear, poet-translator
Marianna Yarovskaya, documentary
Ekaterina Gandrabura, museum curator
Tatyana Rizdvenko, poet
Natalia Prozorova, philologist
Sergey Soloviev, poet
Fedor Yeremeyev, publisher
Nikola Ovchinnikov, artist
Julia Kisina, writer
Elena Nusinova, editor
Grigory Yaroshenko, photographer
Lev Oborin, poet, critic
Lina Starostina, poet
Boris Gureyev (Reitsen), journalist
Elena Panfilova, teacher
Denis Larionov, editor, teacher, literary critic
Vladimir Orenov, director
Lyubov Rozhkova, journalist
Marina Koldomskaya, artist, curator
Elizabeth Ganopol, writer
Karine Harutyunova, writer, artist
Mikhail Mayatsky, philosopher
Tatyana Sergeenko, film critic, editor
Elizaveta Mikhailichenko, writer
Yuri Netis, writer
Oleg Proskurin, literature historian
Dmitry Chernyshev, writer
Irina Surat, philologist
Olga Tobreluts, artist
Alla Borisova, journalist
Evgenia Nekrasova, writer
Nikita Mironov, street musician
Valery Syrovatkin, director, actor
Vladimir Mironenko, artist
Vladimir Semenov, publisher
Maria Vul, editor
Sasha Dagdale, writer
Vitaly Lechsier, poet, editor
Victor Fanailov, journalist
Elena Selina, curator, galleryman
Marina Vilner, artistic director of the House of Scientists Pushchino
Maya Sheremeteva, poet
Vladimir Efroimson, poet
Olga Goldin, philologist
Gennady Smirnov, artist, photographer
Valery Bochkov, prose writer
Danila Halperovich, journalist
Grigory Kakovkin, writer, playwright
Alexey Bazhin, film distributor
Evgenia Ablyuk, philologist
Vasily Shevtsov, screenwriter
Natalia Rubinstein, journalist, literary critic
Denis Akhapkin, philologist
Evgeny Braido, writer, philologist
Andrey Rushailo-Arno, photographer
Evelina Melenevskaya, writer
Mikhail Virozub, writer
Hava-Broach Korzakov, poet
Ksenia Mitrokhina, philologist
Yana Wagner, writer
Olga Skokhnychnaya, philologist, writer
Igor Savelyev, writer
Alexander Pereverzin, poet, publisher
Olga Lysak, director, actress
Mikhail Zanadvorov, writer, actor
Rifat Gumerov, poet
Galina Sheveleva, journalist
Andrey Voronin, philosopher, writer
Julia Semchenko, artist, photographer
Lyudmila Sekatskaya (Pukhanova), poet
Kira Lanina, architect
Irina Korshikova, writer
Alexander Furman, writer
Marina Arromstam, writer, teacher, journalist
Vladimir Sotnikov, writer
Tatyana Sotnikova, writer
Evgeny Service, artist
Maria Ignatieva, poet, translator
Alexander Minkin, journalist
Olga Ilnitskaya, writer
Vladislav Degtyarev, culturologist
Tofik Shakhverdiev, film director
German Lukonikov, poet
Vitaly Kabakov, publisher
Igor J. Kuras, poet
Mikhail Dzyubenko, philologist
Vladimir Pimonov, journalist, poet
Tatyana Anikina, journalist
Yuri Fedorov, Independent Military-Political Expert
Elena Chernikova, prose writer
Anna Mirkess-Radzivon, editor
Marek Radzivon, historian, teacher
Veronica Luxembourg, journalist, television producer
Arsen Melitonyan, culturologist
Mikhail Yampolsky, culturalist
Evgeny Ermolin, writer
Rostislav Yartsev, poet
Olga Galitskaya, journalist
Dmitry Petrov, writer, publicist
Marina Buvylo, writer
Kit Hammond, translator
Lina Shelia-Roginskaya, art critic
Demyan Fanshel, doctor, poet, essayist
Tatyana Samoilova, journalist, producer
Andrey Nechaev, journalist
Dmitry Popov, teacher
Victor Balabanov, actor
Timur Olevsky, journalist
Ekaterina Pryannik, journalist
Anna Kosslavskaya, poet, writer
Boris Ilizarov, historian
Alexander Rubinin, artist
Evgeny Dobrovinsky, artist
Mark Polyakov, artist
Evgeny ACS, architect
Marina Bernatskaya, journalist, writer
Rita Balmina, poet, artist
Anna Gedymin, poet
Alexander Alabin, musician
Evgeny Volpert, poet
Danil Fayzov, poet
Lev Timofeev, writer
Alexey Gostintsev is an artist
Tatyana Klyavina, theater expert
Vladimir Zhbankov, poet
Lyudmila Ghazaryan, poet, curator
Christina Gorelik, journalist
Tatyana Ponomareva, journalist
Irina Pisnina, historian
Tamir Zaltsman, rabbi, poet, translator, bard
Alexander Stolyarchuk, editor
Elizaveta Lerer, editor
Zinovy Zinik, writer
Irina Valdron, artist
Irina Mashinskaya, writer
Slava Shevelenko, artist
Irina Varskaya, historian, journalist
Olga Balla, literary critic
Maria Batova, singer, musicologist
Maria Nesterenko, philologist
Marta Volkova, artist
Katya Petrovskaya, writer
Evgenia Lavat, poet
Evgeny Gindilis, producer
Julius Kim, poet, bard
Natalia Kim, teacher, writer
Sergey Lukashevsky, historian
Sanjar Yanyshev, poet
Katerina Khmelnitskaya, philologist, psychotherapist
Larisa Sehon, artist
Olga Grinkrug, translator
Maxim Mamlyga, book observer
Vyacheslav Kornichenko, actor, director
Alexander Arkhangelsky, writer
Victor Shenderovich, publicist, writer
Alexander Genis, journalist, writer
Nina Katerli, writer
Olga Warsaver, translator
Maria Galina, translator
Maria Stepanova, poet
Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer
Ilya Kukulin, cultural historian
Maria Mayofis, cultural historian
Nuna Barsigyan, writer
Irina Staph, translator
Dmitry Bavilsky, writer
Lilia Gazizova, poet
Boris Sokolov, historian, writer
Tatyana Shcherbina, poet
Nikolai Podoskorsky, literary critic
Victor Matizen, film critic
Vladimir Sotnikov, writer
Anna Berseneva, writer
Tatyana Voltskaya, Poet-Inoagent
Leonid Bakhnov, writer
Alexey Motorov, writer
Victoria Ivleva, photographer
Tatyana Bonch, philologist, writer
Andrey Zbarsky, editor
Natalia Mavelvich, translator
Julius Gugolev, poet
Mikhail Nisenbaum, writer
Alexey Slapovsky, writer
Oleg Lexmanov, philologist, writer
Lev Timofeev, writer
Sergey Gandlevsky, writer
Natalia Ivanova, writer
Nikolai Kononov, writer
Vitaly Dixon, writer
Mark Greenberg, translator
Mikhail Aizenberg, poet
Gennady Kalashnikov, poet
Marina Vishnevetskaya, writer
Alexey Prokopyev, poet, translator
Victor Esipov, literary critic, poet
Natalia Chepik, Kinoperman
Alla Shevelkina, journalist
Andrey Velikanov, artist, philosopher
Dmitry Muratov, journalist