{"id":296706,"date":"2014-03-05T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/03\/05\/public-letter-from-several-russian-language-writers-in-kharkov\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","slug":"public-letter-from-several-russian-language-writers-in-kharkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/03\/05\/public-letter-from-several-russian-language-writers-in-kharkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Letter from Several Russian-language Writers in Kharkov"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, after reading my post on Ukrainian literature,<\/a> the translator\/writer\/editor Tanya Paperny<\/a> passed along the following letter, which is signed by twenty-one Russian-language writers living in Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine. I think it’s important that more people have a chance to read this, so I’m posting it here.<\/em><\/p>\n

On March 1, the Council of the Russian Federation backed the Russian President\u2019s appeal to take exhaustive measures to protect Russians in Ukraine, going as far as the introduction of Russian armed forces onto Ukrainian territory. On that same day, in the regional capitals of Western Ukraine, pro-Russian rallies instigated by city authorities took place. Participants in the rallies in Kharkov, including people who had been brought in on buses<\/a> with Russian numbers, stormed the regional administration building and beat up the Euromaidan supporters inside, including the famous writer Serhiy Zhadan (he was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull, a concussion, and a possible broken nose). A Russian citizen and resident of Moscow climbed onto the regional administration building and installed a Russian flag.<\/p>\n

Officially, the Federation\u2019s Council is guided by the alleged reports of numerous infringements upon the rights of Russians in Ukraine. If such reports exist, they should be made public and each one thoroughly studied.<\/p>\n

We, Russian writers of Kharkov, want our voices to be heard, too: at work and elsewhere, we freely communicate in Russian, even with our Ukrainian colleagues. In any case, the questions under discussion about linguistics or nationality cannot be reasons for military intervention.<\/p>\n

We, Russian writers of Kharkov and citizens of Ukraine, don\u2019t need the military protection of another State. We don\u2019t want another State\u2014hiding behind the rhetoric of protecting our interests\u2014to drive its troops into our city and our country, risking the lives of our friends and relatives. All we need is peace and a calm life. And the decision by the Russian Federation and its military invasion is a real threat to this possibility. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Anastasia Afanasyeva, winner of the \u201cRussian Prize\u201d and the \u201cLiteratuRRentgen\u201d prize, short listed for the \u201cDebut\u201d prize<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dmitry Dedyulin, poet, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elena Donskaya, writer, teacher<\/p>\n

\u2022 Inna Zakharova, poet, human rights activist<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrei Klimov, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Svetlana Klimova, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vladislav Kolchigin, poet<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alexander Kocharyan, poet<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrei Krasniashikh, co-editor of \u201cWriters Union\u201d literary journal, short listed for
\nAndrei Bely, \u201cNonconformism,\u201d O.Henry and Daniil Kharms prizes, long listed for \u201cRussian Prize\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2022 Alexandra Mkrtchyan, long listed for \u201cRussian Prize\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2022 Kirill Novikov, poet<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sergey Pankratov, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oleg Petrov, poet, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrei Pichakhchi, writer, artist<\/p>\n

\u2022 Irina Skachko, poet, journalist<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yuri Solomko, short listed for \u201cLiteratuRRentgen\u201d prize, long listed for \u201cDebut\u201d and \u201cRussian Prize\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tatyana Polozhii, poet<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yuri Tsaplin, co-editor of \u201cWriters Union\u201d literary journal, winner of the 2002 \u201cCultural Hero\u201d award at the national contemporary art festival<\/p>\n

\u2022 Svetlana Shevchuk, writer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Victor Shepelev, writer, programmer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vladimir Yaskov, poet, translator<\/p>\n

[translated by Tanya Paperny<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, after reading my post on Ukrainian literature, the translator\/writer\/editor Tanya Paperny passed along the following letter, which is signed by twenty-one Russian-language writers living in Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine. I think it’s important that more people have a chance to read this, so I’m posting it here. On March 1, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[4636,8996],"class_list":["post-296706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-russian-literature","tag-ukrainian-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296706\/revisions\/338496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}