Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was stripped of the title of honorary professor at the Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technical University

The famous writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was stripped of the title of honorary professor at the Russian Chemical-Technological University (RHTU) named after Mendeleev back in August. this in her Telegram channel The head of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Elena Yampolskaya, announced .

In the publication, Yampolskaya refers to an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Academic Council of the Russian Chemical Technical University on August 30, which was sent to her by representatives of the university. The document says that 50 representatives of the university council voted to strip Ulitskaya of the title of honorary professor.

Yampolskaya’s document itself was provided shortly after she criticized the Russian Chemical Technology University in her telegram channel for awarding the title to a writer. In the publication, the State Duma deputy wrote that “Ulitskaya has made a mess over the past time - you can’t clean it up,” therefore, according to Yampolskaya, the writer should be stripped of her title.

“I see on the official website of the university a question about awarding the title (2021). However, I don’t see anything related to the deprivation <…> Dear heads of the university and colleagues from the Ministry of Education and Science, please provide clarification,” Yampolskaya’s post said.

This morning, pro-government pranksters Vovan and Lexus published on their Telegram channel a conversation with Lyudmila Ulitskaya on behalf of Andrei Ermak, head of the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. In the video, the writer said that she sends royalties from the sale of her books to Ukraine.

In addition, Ulitskaya said that she considers it “Ukraine’s right” to take aggressive actions against pro-Kremlin propagandists. “I can’t say that I like it, this position, but you have the right to it,” the writer said, commenting on the assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin. previously claimed responsibility for the attempted murder. The Atesh movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars

Ulitskaya called the pranksters’ question about what to do with the residents of Crimea who support Russia after the peninsula returns to Ukraine “very sick.” The writer recalled that the region previously belonged to different countries and advocated for Crimea to be a separate federal state.

Shortly after the publication of the video with Ulitskaya pranksters, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Alexander Sholokhov recalled that today deputies in the third reading adopted a bill on confiscation of property from those convicted of military “fakes” for “selfish motives” and crimes against state security. The amendments, according to Sholokhov, may also affect the writer in connection with her admission of sending money to Ukraine.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a native of Bashkortostan, writer, winner of the Russian Booker, Big Book and other literary awards. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, she criticized the Russian authorities. At the end of February 2022, Ulitskaya emigrated to Germany.