Congress of Russian intelligentsia opposed sending troops to Kazakhstan

The full text of the appeal against sending Russian soldiers to Kazakhstan is published on the website of the radio station "Echo of Moscow".

The appeal was signed by dozens of civic activists, writers, human rights defenders, journalists, scientists, cultural figures, and caring citizens who called the entry of Russian troops into the republic a "crime".

The editorial board of Novye Izvestia cites it without cuts.

“In connection with reports that the President of Kazakhstan Tokayev appealed to the heads of state of the CSTO with a request for assistance in suppressing the protests, we, the undersigned, declare:

1. We are resolutely against the participation of Russian citizens and the security forces of the Russian Federation in the suppression of protests in Kazakhstan.
2. We consider sending Russian units there a crime against the peoples of Russia and Kazakhstan.
3. We do not want our fellow citizens to die and kill to save the rulers who have discredited themselves.
4. The participation of Russian security officials in the suppression of protests will inevitably worsen the situation of the Russian-speaking citizens of Kazakhstan, who will become responsible for the imperialist policies of the Russian leadership.
5. The Russian political regime supported the very corrupt authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan, the desire to get rid of which brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets of Kazakhstan's cities, so Russian troops cannot act there as peacekeepers.
6. We wish the people of Kazakhstan to get rid of the corrupt dictatorship and success in building a peaceful and democratic Kazakhstan.

The Congress of the Intelligentsia is collecting signatures here

Grigory Amnuel, physicist

Alexander Belavin, physicist

Leonid Gozman, politician

Lev Ponomarev *, human rights activist

Svetlana Gannushkina, human rights activist

Valery Borshchev, human rights activist,

Dmitry Bykov, writer,

Harry Bardeen, director,

Andrey Smirnov, director,

Vladimir Pozner, journalist,

Andrey Nechaev, politician, professor,

Boris Vishnevsky, deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly,

Lev Schlosberg, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party,

Lyudmila Ulitskaya, writer,

Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer,

Boris Sokolov, historian, writer,

Dmitry Oreshkin, political scientist,

Nikolai Prokudin, writer, veteran of the war in Afghanistan

Daniil Konstantinov, lawyer, former political prisoner,

Tatiana Yankelevich Bonner, human rights activist,

Mikhail Mints, historian,

Nikolay Podosokorsky, publicist,

Oleksiy Shevchenko, social activist,

Daria Kornilova, journalist,

Nikolay Rozanov, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Alexander Musin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, archaeologist,

Julia Guseva, translator,

Alexey Gusev, historian,

Khrobystov Vladimir, musician,

Irena Podolskaya, philologist,

Natalia Mavlevich, translator,

Alexandra Lanskaya, citizen,

Olga Sedakova, writer,

Ilya Shtemler, writer,

Arsen Mirzaev, poet,

Konstantin Azadovsky, philologist,

Yuri Samodurov, civil publicist,

Lyudmila Alpern, human rights activist,

Anatoly Berger, poet, writer,

Irina Levinskaya, historian,

Alexander Lykov, pensioner,

Vyacheslav Pai, pensioner,

Tatiana Kotlyar, human rights activist,

Vladimir Volkov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,

Yana Teplitskaya, mathematician,

Ekaterina Magnitskaya, employee,

Georgy Shelike, translator,

Yuri Vdovin, member of the St. Petersburg Human Rights Council, retired,

Natalia Samokhina, poet,

Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko, clergyman,

Elena Bukvareva, Doctor of Biological Sciences,

Elena Karavaeva, pensioner,

Alexey Vasiliev, teacher, researcher,

Maria Snegovaya, political scientist,

Varshaver Olga, translator,

Vera Shabelnikova, editor,

Vladislav Snegovoy, pensioner,

Stepan Sidorov, design artist,

Tatiana Voltskaya *, poet, journalist,

Alexander Nezhny, writer,

Valery Otstavnykh, director, journalist,

Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer,

Marina Boroditskaya, writer,

Natalia Tumashkova, psychologist,

Amina Hasanova, translator,

Boris Pospelov, chef,

Irina Kraineva, historian,

Ekaterina Raeva, lawyer,

Karina Kotova, citizen,

Valery Salazkin, teacher, civil activist,

Alexander Eisman, civil activist,

Maria Kullanda, historian,

Sergey Ninenko, citizen,

Inna Kurtyukova, Project Coordinator Citizen Observer,

Andrey Kirillov, art critic,

Kirill Burykin, psychologist,

Egje Velkayayev, writer,

Tatiana Shoshina, pensioner,

Emilia Slabunova, politician

Lev Gudkov, sociologist

Svetlana Astrakhantseva, human rights activist

Sergey Davidis, lawyer, human rights activist

Natalia Taubina, human rights activist

Boris Altshuler, human rights activist

Eduard Nemtsov, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Valeria Prikhodkina, human rights activist

Nikolay Kulbaka, Associate Professor, RANEPA, Candidate of Economic Sciences

Nikolay Vorontsov, civil activist

Andrey Zbarsky, editor

Shavlovsky Vladimir, pensioner

Elena Efros, civic activist

Elena Menshenina, civil activist

Evgeny Savostyanov, pensioner

Alexander Rudnitsky, civil activist

Katya-Anna Taguti artist

Anna Shapiro director

Sergey Lutsenko super-viser of animation

Alexey Diveev programmer

Alexander Ryklin, journalist

Andrey Piontkovsky, publicist

Yuri Gimmelfarb, journalist

Mikhail Arkadiev, Doctor of Arts

Alexey Petrov *, journalist, human rights activist

Vladimir Reznikov, economist

Irina Tanunina, playwright

Daniil Galitsky, student

Yaroslav Kucherinenko, crystallographer

Yuri Smirnov *, pensioner

Leonid Chubarov, Researcher

Tatiana Kulakovskaya, civil activist

Mikhail Krieger, retired

Igor Pushchin, biologist

Olga Gnezdilova, attorney

Vitaly Dixon, writer

Vyugin Alexey, pensioner

Andrey Fokin, ecologist

Boris Rotenstein, director

Mikhail Buzin, civil activist

Elena Fanailova, poet, journalist

Viktor Zakharov, pensioner

Elena Zakharova, pensioner

Alexander Matskevich, civil activist

Lyubov Moseeva-Elye, human rights activist

Natalia Pakhsaryan, philologist

Irina Kozlova, Candidate of Philology, Research Fellow

Igor Toporkov, human rights activist

Ilya Ginzburg, physicist

Tamara Fomina, philologist

Anna Kapustina, journalist

Dinar Idrisov, civil activist

Tatiana Tikhonovich, pensioner

Felix Shvedovsky, journalist

Alexander Wenger, psychologist

Marina Balueva, teacher

Raisa Ivolga, pensioner

Vladimir Zalischak, deputy

Olga Smirnova *, architect

Irina Bogdanovskaya, retired Aleksey Yasinsky, compiler of the library collection of the All-Russian State Library for Literature and Literature

Andrey Golovenkin, pensioner

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, writer

Marina Bukina, individual entrepreneur

Kerim Ragimov, artist

Vsevolod Nelaev, trader

Irina Glushkova, orientalist

Pavel Litvinov, civil activist

Arkady Konikov, programmer

Konstantin Isaakov, travel journalist

Valery Mastyuk, historian

Viktor Yukchev, journalist

Evgeny Ass, architect

Elena Fanailova, journalist, poet

Alexander Gelman *, civic activist

Irina Revina-Hofmann, documentary filmmaker

Stanislav Stanskikh, lawyer

Elena Grigorieva, poet

The collection of signatures under the appeal continues.

* Lev Ponomarev is an individual recognized as a foreign agent. Sergey Smirnov is an individual recognized as a foreign agent. Tatiana Voltskaya is a media recognized as a foreign agent. Alexey Petrov is an individual recognized as a foreign agent. Marat Gelman is an individual recognized as a foreign agent.