"This is our shame" - a collective letter on behalf of cultural and public figures of Russia

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Mikhail Zygar published a collective letter on Instagram on behalf of cultural and public figures. It was signed by Chulpan Khamatova, Leonid Parfenov, Ivan Vyrypaev, Boris Akunin, Vladimir Mirzoev, Ilya and Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Vladimir Sorokin and others. All of them reacted to the start of a military special operation in Ukraine.

“Compatriots! The outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine is a disgrace.

This is our shame, but, unfortunately, our children, a generation of very young and unborn Russians, will also have to bear responsibility for it. We do not want our children to live in an aggressor country, so that they are ashamed that their army attacked a neighboring independent state.

We call on all citizens of Russia to say "no" to this war.

We do not believe that an independent Ukraine poses a threat to Russia or any other state. We do not believe Vladimir Putin's claims that the Ukrainian people are under the rule of "Nazis" and need to be "liberated".

We demand an end to this war,” the appeal reads.

The text of the appeal on Facebook and Instagram was posted by writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar.

In addition to Zygar himself, writers signed the appeal:

Boris Akunin,
Dmitry Bykov,
Dmitry Glukhovsky,
Vladimir Sorokin,
playwright Ivan Vyrypaev,
directors Vladimir Mirzoev, Andrey Khrzhanovsky and Ilya Khrzhanovsky,
journalist, Nobel Prize winner Dmitry Muratov,
journalist Leonid Parfyonov,
publisher Irina Prokhorova,
actress Chulpan Khamatova.
Andrey Volna - doctor
Yevgeny Roizman - politician
Boris Vishnevsky - politician
Lev Shlosberg - politician
Yuri Dud - journalist
Alexander Gelman - playwright
Liya Akhedzhakova - actress
Oleg Basilashvili - actor
Maria Levina - journalist
Oksimiron - singer
Julia Aug - actress
Vladimir Sorokin, writer
Andrey Zubov - historian
Maxim Galkin - artist
Olga Romanova - human rights activist
Andrey Loshak - journalist
Tofig Shahverdiev - director
Oksana Mysina - actress
Valery Meladze - singer
Konstantin von Eggert - journalist
Marina Litvinovich - politician
Ivan Vyrypaev, playwright
Nina Popova - actress
Yulia Galyamina - politician
Chulpan Khamatova, actress, People's Artist of Russia
Igor Chernevich - actor
Vladimir Mirzoev, director
Dmitry Glukhovsky, writer
Anton Dolin - film critic
Zoya Svetova - human rights activist
Sergey Lazarev - singer
Andrey Plakhov - film critic
Ilya Khrzhanovsky, director
Kirill Rogov - economist
Tikhon Dzyadko - journalist
Valeria Stenkina - opera singer
Misha Nodelman - violinist
Ivan Dorn - singer
Mikhail Trepashkin - lawyer
Mikhail Biryukov - lawyer
Andrei Khrzhanovsky, director, People's Artist of Russia
Stanislav Kucher - journalist
Maria Eismont - lawyer
Ilya Yashin - politician
Vitaly Mansky - director
Yuri Pivovarov - historian, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg Lekmanov - literary critic
Boris Bim-Bad - teacher, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education
Gennady Gudkov - politician
Vladislav Inozemtsev - economist
Andrey Smirnov - director
Mikhail Sokolov - journalist, historian
Morgenstern - singer
German Galdetsky - human rights activist
Evgeny Chichvarkin - businessman
Dmitry Gudkov - politician
Sergey Guriev - Economist, Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Larry Grimm - blogger
Andrey Illarionov - economist, adviser to Putin in the 2000s.
Zhanna Nemtsova - journalist

Na call - SUBSCRIBE, friends! The following joined the letter:

Marina Tarkhanova - pensioner Olga Osipova, teacher, retired Andrey Berkh Andrey Podderegin Marina Lylova Tanya Mongait - Tarkhanova Buryan Tatiana - pensioner Maria Sidorenko, pensioner Svetlana Kudryavets, nurse Miriam Fine, pensioner Olga Maksakova, doctor Alla Frolova, human rights activist Elena Lukyanova, lawyer Timofeev, journalist Vyacheslav Shmyrov, cinematographer, producer Svetlana Bakhmina, lawyer Vladimir Kornienko, just a good person Elena Zagrevskaya, TV producer Marianna Rychkova, pensioner Olga Zherdeva, housewife Ruslan Loshakov, philosopher Irina Zhovtun, pensioner Alla Sheinina - teacher Anna Lubochnova, economist Tatyana Rudina, actress Boris Golant, entrepreneur Olga Zaslavskaya, teacher Inna Grosman, doctor Ivan Stremsky, teacher Alexandra Korobeinikova, researcher, our pensioner Tengiz Grigolia, military pensioner Lyubov Vladimirova, financier. Irina Khmelevskaya, researcher Marina Gorcheva, pensioner Tamara Leonteva, pensioner Galina Kuklinova, mother, grandmother, wife Tatyana Gorina, doctor Natalya Olenina, pensioner Khava Khazbieva, director-documentary Nelya Presnova, teacher Emilia Holstein, economist, teacher Mikhailova Svetlana. Elena Mettus, teacher. Galina Melnikova, pensioner Gennady Tsypin, musician. Anna Shirokova, lawyer Alekseeva Lyubov, entrepreneur Elena Potapova, pharmacist Emilia Petanova, teacher Natalia Butomo, manager Maxim Chernavin, lawyer. Sergey Boyarkin, entrepreneur Maria Korovina, chemist Petr Sapozhnikov, journalist Ivan Ovintsev, doctor Natalia Bubnova, leading researcher Maria and Mikhail Fedotov Motsny Sergey Anatolyevich, lawyer, Belgorod. Yakovleva Nataliya Yuri Nikitin, entrepreneur Yulia Maslennikova, doctor Lyubov Karakoz, librarian Igor Semennikov, pensioner Natalya Maslova, academic Lyubov Borusyak, sociologist Olga Krokinskaya, sociologist Andrey Nechaev, economist Regina Davydova, pensioner Igor Kuznik Loginova Nadezhda pensioner Elena Istomina, artist Anatoly Istomin, artist Tatiana Kichigina, lawyer Alexander Gurechich, pensioner Vera Goncharova, lawyer Yulia Linchevskaya, lawyer Alexey Sedykh, entrepreneur Nelya Presnova, teacher Goroshko Yevgeny. A lawyer. Ilya Farber Vasily Zonov, electrician Anna Dvinskaya, producer Lena Nemirovskaya, educator Lev Lerman, electrical engineer Larisa Dmitrieva, actress Yuri Senokosov, educator Pavel Yarkov, pensioner Elena Yelagina. Lawyer. Bayborodina Natalya, teacher Elizaveta Poghosyan, lawyer Alexander Mikoyan, pensioner Sergey Likhvatskih, photographer Ksenia Guskova, teacher Vera Vasilieva, lawyer Mikhail Lin, architect Ksenia Fedotova, lawyer Anastasia Yalanskaya, journalist Yulia Andreychik, doctor Nikolai Sutarmin, artist Elena Osina - IP Alexey Bogoslovsky, teacher Prokoshkina Vera Alexander Kabatsky, entrepreneur Grigory Yanovsky, IT specialist Elena Baikina, teacher Tatyana Adamovich, pensioner Boris Kogan, pensioner Pavel Bazanov, doctor Anna Lovkina, lawyer Maria Moiseeva, lawyer Ibrahim Mogushkov, builder Olga Kogan, teacher Tatiana Ryzhkova, worker Elena Ushakova , pensioner Elena Sunyukova, librarian Yury Nesterenko, programmer Alexander Agu, pensioner Vera Prokoshkina Natalya Samsonova, philologist Ekaterina Nemtseva Monika Spivak, historian of literature Tatyana Kotyuzhanskaya, economist, Astrakhan Anna Vaneeva, human Andrey Cherepanov, economist, historian Dmitry Avramenko, builder, poet Lyudmila Gobk ina, temporarily unemployed Vasiliev Igor, pensioner Elena Kondratova pensioner Nadezhda Tereshchenko, Russian Pavel Aleshin, poet, art critic Andrey Klimov, mathematician-programmer Mikhail Ignatiev. Citizen. Andrey Rushaylo-Arno, photographer Irina Arutyunova-Kirsh, teacher Nina Pereslegina, publisher Nadezhda Radchenko, pensioner Inna Shapoval, lawyer Arman Galoyan, lawyer, artist Andrey Polyakoov, pensioner Olga Chapaeva, cashier Olga Nazina, pensioner Ekaterina Shelest, bioinformatician Mikhail Roshkin. Pensioner Rita Spivak, philologist Stanislav Ivashkovsky, university professor Viktor Drozdov, lawyer Tamara Yurishcheva, teacher Marina Kalmakova. Pensioner Alexander Pochukaev, actor Dmitrieva Irina Sergey Medvedev, activist Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva, political scientist Olga Bychkova, pensioner Yulia Laskovets, lawyer Viktor Karmatsky. Musician Sergey Gornov, pensioner Alexandra Kokoreva, teacher Elena Liptser, lawyer Alexey Sedykh, entrepreneur Marina Kilyan, journalist Olga Kravtsova, psychologist Anna Lubochnova, economist Lyubov Kravtsova, pensioner Bayborodina Natalya, teacher Vasily Weisenberg, expert "Voice" Alexey Gridnev, freelancer Ekaterina Kasyanova, QA engineer Marina Lange, lawyer Yevgeny Gomberg Ekaterina Margolis, artist Marina Konnova Tatiana Dogileva, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Irina Tsvey, journalist Anna Stavitskaya, lawyer Larisa Pavlova, specialist OT Olga Sinelnikova, forensic expert Tatiana Vyatkina, pensioner Olga Varshaver, translator Anastasia Nemolyaeva- Actress Natalya Kostolomova - pensioner Polugodkov Roman - pensioner Irina Ilyicheva, 

editor Natalya Troyantseva, poet, essayist Tatiana Di Gioia, teacher. Elvira Khasanova Ruslan Zhukurov Olga Kryazkova, lawyer. Valery Zavorotny, writer Elizaveta Saponchik, researcher Irina Alebastrova, lawyer Svetlana Sorokina, journalist, teacher Marat Gelman, gallerist, foreign agent Elena Myasnikova, philologist, journalist Elena Koreneva, actress Irina Kumanina, lawyer Yulia Maslennikova, doctor Maria Orlova, journalist Sergey Zair - Bek, teacher, expert Sergey Terekhin is a public figure. Olga Zimenkova, lawyer Mikhail Kondakov, lawyer Lena Ostrakhovich, unemployed Nadezhda Ermolaeva, lawyer Yulia Linchevskaya, lawyer Yulia Naumenko, teacher Nadezhda Ermolaeva, lawyer Elena Barikhnovskaya, lawyer Natalya Karikh Elena Potapova Mikhail Lin, architect Ksenia Guskova, teacher Irina Chopin Leonid Moyjes, religiologist . Alexey Boev, journalist Valeria Zvereva, geologist Daria Tsivina, journalist Elena Barikhnovskaya, lawyer Natalya Nusinova, cinematographer Ekaterina Ustinova, entrepreneur Maria Voskobitova, lawyer Irina Vechtomova, manager Galina Filchenko Polugodkov Roman - pensioner Kravtsova Anna, lawyer. Alexander Kynev, political scientist Eronova Irina, designer, city of Ufa Alexander Strygin Lyudmila Kabanova, mother and grandmother Tatyana Anikina, journalist Yuri Fedorov, journalist Konstantin Rivkin, lawyer Sergey Kupreychenko, lawyer Elena Verzhbitskaya Anna Klimenko Lana Svetina Tatyana Savitskaya, pensioner Olga Sokolovskaya, translator Elena Anosova, entrepreneur Alexander Sorin, photographer, curator Maria Sorina, artist Lev Rubinstein, writer Maria Smolyaninova Tatiana Maltsevskaya Alexey Shirov, chess player Alexander Motylev

Other Russian celebrities spoke out against Russia's war with Ukraine, including:

Zemfira, Ivan Urgant, Renata Litvinova, Valery Meladze, Shnur, Makar Zaporozhsky, an actor of the Moscow Theater named after Mayakovsky, as well as the source of Znak.com told the TV channel "Match TV" about the management's attempts to ban employees from speaking out against the war in social networks.

The director of the Vsevolod Meyerhold Moscow State Theater and Cultural Center, Elena Kovalskaya, decided to leave her post as a sign of protest against Russia's military aggression.

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