famous historian, scientific adviser INION, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov, who for 17 years headed the INION RAS, is now in the hospital, he will have a serious operation. Earlier, searches were carried out at his three addresses and his passport was confiscated, and a criminal case was initiated against him for allegedly fictitious employment at the institute. Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov is known for his principled position on the defense of INION, and earlier he criticized the reform Russian Academy sciences and was never afraid to give comments to the media about the problems of historical heritage and development prospects Russian state. In November 2016, giving a lecture as part of the "Evening Readings" project, he noted that "Russia is in desperate need of change", and in February 2017, in an interview with the French Radio International RFI, he said: "No dictatorship in the world has ever ended well ".

At the beginning of April, Yu.S. Pivovarov spoke about his persecution " Novaya Gazeta”: “It can be said that since April 20, 2015, in relation to me, criminal prosecution. At first, I was a defendant in a criminal case on the fact of a fire at my institute. But three examinations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and an examination conducted by the Investigative Committee confirmed my innocence. That is, there is no connection with the fire in the actions or inactions of Academician Pivovarov. But instead of dropping the charges against me and closing the case, in November last year it was transferred from the Department for Especially Important Cases of the Moscow Investigative Committee to the Investigative Committee Russian Federation. And instead of one investigator - a senior lieutenant, now I have 8-10 major generals."

The academician called his criminal prosecution harassment and a political order: “Of course, the appearance of this new case and the investigative measures associated with it, as well as the previous criminal prosecution, is nothing more than harassment. A purely political order, I just don’t know yet what "Because of one and a half million rubles, which, with the current level of corruption in the country, even looks somehow offensive! Moreover, I have neither seen this money nor held it in my hands, even the investigators were impressed by the modest lifestyle of the honored academician. If I am not arrested today or tomorrow, I will speak, tell, speak. This is not a private matter of an individual, Pivovarov, it can affect everyone."

We believe that the criminal prosecution of Yuri Pivovarov, as well as the persecution unleashed against him in the media and on the Internet, have no other goals than the following - to break and destroy public figure, who enjoys great prestige among the Russian intelligentsia and is not afraid to speak out publicly on topical historical and political issues, as well as to sow fear in scientific community to discourage scientists from freely discussing the current state of affairs in Russia and the world.

Obviously, this is also done in order to undermine the resistance of thinking people to the so-called. "optimization" of scientific and cultural institutions, which boils down to a decrease in state funding for science and culture, an increase in bureaucratic pressure and the suppression of the rights and freedoms of employees of academic institutions, universities, museums, libraries, archives, etc.

We call on Russian and international public organizations and the media to pay close attention to the case of Yuri Pivovarov and speak out in his defense as an unjustly persecuted contemporary Russian dissident. His life is now in real danger, and only public attention to his case can stop the Russian authorities or individual groups so-called "siloviki" from further arbitrariness.

Boris Averin, literary historian
Konstantin Azadovsky, literary historian
Andrey Alekseev, sociologist
Viktor Allahverdov, Doctor of Psychology
Elena Alferova, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence, INION RAS
Alexander Anikin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ruben Apresyan, Doctor of Philosophy
Yuri Apresyan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexey Arbatov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Arkadiev, Doctor of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
Alexander Arkhangelsky, writer
Vera Afanasyeva, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Valentin Bazhanov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Nune Barseghyan, writer, psychologist
Alexey Bartoshevich, theater critic
Elena Basner, art critic
Leonid Bakhnov, writer
Sergey Beletsiy, doctor historical sciences
Stanislav Belkovsky, political scientist
Sergey Beloglazov, Professor of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky
Elena Berezovich, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Beskin, Doctor of Technical Sciences
Alexander Bobrov, philologist
Viktor Bogorad, artist
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, microbiologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Marina Boroditskaya, writer
Valery Borshchev, human rights activist Moscow Helsinki Group
Natalya Bragina, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the State IRL named after A.S. Pushkin, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Olga Bugoslavskaya, literary critic
Oleg Budnitsky, historian
Igor Bunin, doctor political science
Dmitry Bykov, writer
Andrey Bychkov, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Olga Varshaver, translator
Nikolai Vakhtin, corresponding member. RAS, professor
Maria Virolainen, Pushkinist
Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, publicist, writer
Vladimir Voinovich, writer
Andrey Vorobyov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Tatyana Vorozheikina, lecturer, researcher
Valentin Vydrin, Professor of the Oriental Faculty, St. Petersburg State University
Sergei Gandlevsky, poet
Alexander Gelman, playwright
Mikhail Glazov, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Leonid Gozman, politician
Andrey Golovnev, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Anatoly Golubovsky, sociologist
Yakov Gordin, historian, publicist
Tatyana Goryacheva, art historian
Natalya Gromova, presenter Researcher GLM, writer
Lev Gudkov, sociologist, Doctor of Philosophy
Andrey Desnitsky, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, philologist
Mikhail Dzyubenko, philologist
Vitaly Dixon, writer
Olga Dovgy, philologist
Oleg Dorman, director.
Denis Dragunsky, writer
Olga Drobot, translator
Valery Durnovtsev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Anna Dybo, linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Dybo, linguist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vitaly Dymarsky, journalist
Galina Elshevskaya, art historian
Yevgeny Yermolin, literary critic
Konstantin Yerusalimsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Victor Esipov, writer
Alexander Zhukovsky, sociologist, political scientist
Leonid Zhukhovitsky, writer
Nina Zarkhi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Art of Cinema magazine
Vladimir Zakharov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrei Zubov, historian, religious scholar
Vyacheslav Ivanov, linguist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Askold Ivanchik, historian, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Stanislav Ivashkovsky, head. department economic theory MGIMO
Igor Irteniev, writer
Evgeny Ikhlov, publicist
Sofia Kaganovich, Doctor of Philology
Katya Kapovich, writer, editor of the magazine "FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics"
Andrey Karavashkin, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Ilya Kasavin, Doctor of Philosophy, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Tatyana Kasatkina, Doctor of Philology
Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS)
Nina Caterly, writer
Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Igor Klyamkin, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Alexander Kobrinsky, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after. A.I. Herzen
Elena Kolyadina, writer, journalist
Nikolai Kononov, writer
Vladimir Korsunsky, journalist
Nadezhda Kostyurina, Doctor of Cultural Studies
Tatyana Krasavchenko, Doctor of Philology, INION RAS
Olga Krokinskaya, professor, doctor of sociological sciences
Grigory Kruzhkov, poet
Igor Kurlyandsky, historian
Olga Labas, art historian
Alexander Lavrov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pavel Litvinov, human rights activist
Evgenia Lozinskaya, researcher at INION RAS
Natalya Mavlevich, translator
Dina Magomedova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Vladimir Magun, sociologist
Alexey Makarkin, political scientist
Alexey Makushinsky, writer
Marina Malkiel, musicologist
Lev Marquis, conductor
Alexander Makhov, Doctor of Philology
Velikhan Mirzekhanov, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Alexander Moldovan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Moroz, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Doctor of Philology
Alexey Motorov, writer
Maria Nadyarnykh, philologist (IMLI RAS)
Maxim Nenarokomov, art historian
Andrey Nikitin-Perensky, founder electronic library Imwerden
Sergey Nikolaev, Doctor of Philology
Mikhail Odessky, Doctor of Philology
Dmitry Oreshkin, political scientist
Tatyana Pavlova, PhD in Philology
Tatyana Parkhalina, Deputy Director of INION RAS
Natalya Pakhsaryan, professor at Moscow State University, leading researcher at INION RAS
Grigory Petukhov, poet
Tatyana Pinegina, geologist, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Piontkovsky, publicist
Nikolai Podosokorsky, publicist
Tatyana Pozdnyakova, Ph.D. ped. Sciences, Art. scientific collaborator Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House
Ella Polyakova, human rights activist
Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist
Nina Popova, director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg
Vladimir Porus, Ph.D., Higher School of Economics
Anna Reznichenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Lorina Repina, historian, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Raisa Rozina, Doctor of Philology, Chief Researcher at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Lev Rubinstein, writer
Julius Rybakov, human rights activist
Elena Rybina, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University
Yuri Ryzhov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Olga Sedakova, writer
Adrian Selin, Doctor of History
Alexey Semenov, mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolai Sibeldin, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Tatyana Sotnikova (Anna Berseneva), writer.
Mikhail Sokolov, journalist
Nikita Sokolov, historian
Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer
Nikolay Solodnikov, journalist
Monika Spivak, Doctor of Philology
Irina Staff, philologist, translator
Sergei Stratanovsky, writer
Lyubov Summ, translator
Irina Surat, Doctor of Philology
Alexandra Ter-Avanesova, Leading Researcher, IRL RAS
Lev Timofeev, writer
Elena Titarenko, art critic, journalist
Svetlana Tolstaya, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ivan Tolstoy, radio journalist
Andrey Toporkov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dmitry Travin, economist
Ludmila Ulitskaya, writer
Mark Urnov, Doctor of Political Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Fedor Uspensky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
David Feldman, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Irina Fliege, human rights activist
Artemy Khalatov, head of the editorial board of the magazine "Russia and modern world" INION RAS
Igor Kharichev, writer, secretary of the Writers' Union of Moscow
Alexey Tsvetkov, poet, essayist
Andrey Chernov, writer
Elena Chizhova, writer
Yuri Chistov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS
Marietta Chudakova, member of the European Academy
Marianna Shakhnovich, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Lilia Shevtsova, publicist
Nikita Shklovsky-Kordi, doctor
Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the YABLOKO party, historian
Yuri Shmukler, doctor biological sciences, translator
Boris Stern, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chief Editor Newspaper "Trinity option"
Tatyana Shcherbina, poet, essayist
Mikhail Epshtein, culturologist, professor
Andrey Yurganov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Ekaterina Yakimova, Leading Researcher, Department of Sociology, INION RAS
Viktor Yaroshenko, journalist
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Put a signature under open letter in defense of Yu.S. Pivovarov can be found on Nikolai Podosokorsky's Facebook page.

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free historical society

We demand the rescue of funds and the speedy restoration of the work of INION and the cessation of the campaign against its director Yu.S. Pivovarova

The Free Historical Society expresses its solidarity with the INION team and its director, acad. Yu.S. Pivovarov, who are doing everything possible to save the library funds that were damaged by the fire and restore the work of this unique scientific institution.

We believe that this tragedy is directly related to general level content of academic institutions, attitudes towards science in general. The incident showed that the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, designed primarily to take care of the material part from scientists, has so far yielded nothing in this regard. If the situation is not corrected, this tragedy may not be the last. We call on the scientific community and the state to jointly search for a way out of the situation, the criticality of which was highlighted by the incident with INION.



The fire at INION is a real disaster for humanitarian research in Russia, depriving Russian humanitarians of one of the most important tools of their work - specialized scientific library. normal development humanities in our country is possible only with the speedy restoration of the library, and now every day is important: the books that survived the fire are at risk of death from improper storage conditions and the development of fungi and mold.

Unfortunately, the hard work to rescue INION funds is taking place against an extremely unfavorable, aggressive informational background, which does not at all contribute to its success. Contrary to official statements in support of the institute, on the air of a number of television companies in Lately a real persecution of the director of INION Yu.S. Pivovarov. Vague conspiracy theories about the causes of the fire were replaced by accusations by Yu.S. Pivovarov in corruption, embezzlement of the library's funds and almost in its arson in order to cover their tracks, as well as to destroy the documents allegedly available in INION, compromising certain "liberals".

At the same time, no facts are given, everything is based on conjectures, assumptions and opinions, and odious figures far from science are used as "experts". However, in a number of ways mass media these accusations are directly connected with the public position of Yu.S. Pivovarov and his statements on the topics of the history of Russia in the XX century, which are the subject of his professional studies. We consider it completely unacceptable to use the INION tragedy to settle political scores with its director.

We do not know whether we are talking about a political order, and if so, where it comes from, but it is indicative that the role of performers here is played by obscurantists, almost professionally engaged in the fight against science. First of all, this is the REN-TV channel, which shot the false “killer” film “Diagnostics of the Russian Academy of Sciences” and regularly shows the most base pseudo-scientific programs, for which it just received an anti-award from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for disseminating anti-scientific information.

“Experts” also correspond to the level of this channel, such as German Sterligov, who publicly called all scientists enemies of humanity and called on them to be killed, or Vera Mysina, a typical pseudoscientist with an “incorrectly borrowed” dissertation and a professional fighter against the Academy of Sciences. They obviously hope for impunity, realizing that all the energy of Yu.S. Pivovarov and his employees are absorbed in the restoration of INION, and they do not have the opportunity to sue the slanderers.

We call government bodies, the scientific community of Russia and foreign colleagues to do everything possible to save INION funds and restore its work as soon as possible. We also demand an end to the slander campaign in the media directed against the director of INION Yu.S. Pivovarov.


Members of the Council of the Free Historical Society:

A.I. Ivanchik, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the Department for the Comparative Study of Ancient Civilizations of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University and Russian State Humanitarian University

L.A. Katsva, history teacher at the Moscow Gymnasium in the South-West No. 1543

E.V. Anisimov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, tenured professor and supervisor of the Faculty of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg branch), Professor European University in St. Petersburg, chief researcher of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A.B. Golubovsky, candidate of art criticism, historian, producer

K.N. Morozov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Humanitarian Disciplines of the Institute of Education and Science of the Russian Academy National economy And public service under the President of the Russian Federation

A.I. Miller, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, Visiting Professor at the Central European University

S.A. Ivanov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

IN AND. Dyatlov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Irkutsk State University

A.M. Etkind, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), professor at the European University in Florence.

I.I. Kurilla, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Volgograd State University.

I.N. Danilevsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, tenured professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

A.M. Moldovan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of the Russian Language named after V. V. Vinogradov RAS

P.Yu. Uvarov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Russian State Humanitarian University and the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

N.P. Sokolov, candidate of historical sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal Domestic Notes.

A.V. Rubtsov, Head of the Center for Philosophical Research on Ideological Processes at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sign a petition in defense of INION and its former director Academician Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov

An open letter in support of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov At the initiative of Nikolai Podosokorsky, a member of the Congress of the Intelligentsia, the Congress organizes a collection of signatures in support of Yuri Pivovarov. The well-known historian, scientific director of INION, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov, who for 17 years headed the INION of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is now in the hospital, he will have a serious operation. Earlier, searches were carried out at his three addresses and his passport was confiscated, and a criminal case was initiated against him for allegedly fictitious employment at the institute. Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov is known for his principled position on the defense of INION, he also previously criticized the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was never afraid to comment on the problems of the historical heritage and the prospects for the development of the Russian state. In November 2016, giving a lecture as part of the Evening Readings project, he noted that “Russia is in desperate need of change,” and in February 2017, in an interview with RFI Radio Internationale de France, he said: “No dictatorship in the world has ended well ". At the beginning of April, Yu.S. Pivovarov spoke about his persecution to Novaya Gazeta: “We can say that since April 20, 2015, criminal prosecution has continued against me. At first, I was a defendant in a criminal case on the fact of a fire at my institute. But three examinations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and an examination conducted by the Investigative Committee confirmed my innocence. That is, there is no connection with the fire in the actions or inactions of Academician Pivovarov. But instead of dropping the charges against me and closing the case, in November last year it was transferred from the Department for Especially Important Cases of the Moscow Investigative Committee to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. And instead of one investigator - a senior lieutenant, now I have 8-10 major generals. The academician called his criminal prosecution a persecution and a political order: “Of course, the emergence of this new case and the investigative measures associated with it, as well as the previous criminal prosecution, is nothing more than persecution. A purely political order, I just don't know yet what to connect it with! Because of one and a half million rubles, which, with the current level of corruption in the country, even looks somehow insulting! Moreover, I did not see this money in my eyes, I did not hold it in my hands, even the investigators were impressed by the modest lifestyle of the honored academician. If I am not arrested today or tomorrow, I will speak, tell, speak. This is not a private matter of an individual, Pivovarov, it can affect everyone.” We believe that the criminal prosecution of Yuri Pivovarov, as well as the harassment unleashed against him in the media and on the Internet, have no other goals than the following - to break and destroy a public figure who enjoys great authority among the Russian intelligentsia and is not afraid to speak out publicly on topical issues. historical and political issues, as well as to sow fear in the scientific community in order to discourage scientists from freely discussing the current state of affairs in Russia and the world. Obviously, this is also done in order to undermine the resistance of thinking people to the so-called. "optimization" of scientific and cultural institutions, which boils down to a decrease in state funding for science and culture, an increase in bureaucratic pressure and the suppression of the rights and freedoms of employees of academic institutions, universities, museums, libraries, archives, etc. We call on Russian and international public organizations and the media to pay close attention to the case of Yuri Pivovarov and speak out in his defense as an unjustly persecuted contemporary Russian dissident. His life is now in real danger, and only public attention to his case can stop the Russian authorities or certain groups of the so-called. "siloviki" from further arbitrariness. Signatures: Nikolai Podosokorsky, publicist Andrey Piontkovsky, publicist Lev Timofeev, writer Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist Nikita Sokolov, historian Dmitry Travin, economist Sergei Gandlevsky, poet Vitaly Dixon, writer. Irina Staf, philologist, translator Mikhail Dzyubenko, philologist Mikhail Arkadiev, Doctor of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Irina Surat, Doctor of Philology Pavel Litvinov, human rights activist Natalya Pakhsaryan, Professor of Moscow State University, leading researcher at INION RAS Elena Chizhova, writer Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer Boris Stern , Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the Troitsky Variant newspaper Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, microbiologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Glazov, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, publicist , writer Viktor Esipov, writer Galina Elshevskaya, art critic Oksana Kiyanskaya, doctor of historical sciences Elena Titarenko, art critic, journalist Andrei Chernov, writer Sergei Beloglazov, professor of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky Vera Afanasyeva, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Olga Drobot, translator Andrey Yurganov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University Sergey Beletsiy, Doctor of Historical Sciences Konstantin Yerusalimsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences Lyubov Summ, translator Andrey Nikitin-Perensky, founder of the electronic library "Imwerden" Katya Kapovich, writer, editor of the magazine "FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics" Natalia Mavlevich, translator. Adrian Selin, Doctor of Historical Sciences Olga Krokinskaya, Professor, Doctor of Sociological Sciences Viktor Bogorad, artist Sergey Nikolaev, Doctor of Philology Alexei Makushinsky, writer Tatyana Pinegina, geologist, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nina Popova, director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer Mikhail Sokolov, journalist Nune Barseghyan, writer, psychologist Olga Varshaver, translator

The well-known historian, scientific director of INION, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov, who for 17 years headed the INION of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is now in the hospital, he will have a serious operation. Earlier, searches were carried out at his three addresses and his passport was confiscated, and a criminal case was initiated against him for allegedly fictitious employment at the institute. Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov is known for his principled position on the defense of INION, he also previously criticized the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was never afraid to comment on the problems of the historical heritage and the prospects for the development of the Russian state. In November 2016, giving a lecture as part of the Evening Readings project, he noted that “Russia is in desperate need of change,” and in February 2017, in an interview with RFI Radio Internationale de France, he said: “No dictatorship in the world has ended well ".

At the beginning of April, Yu.S. Pivovarov spoke about his persecution to Novaya Gazeta: “We can say that since April 20, 2015, criminal prosecution has continued against me. At first, I was a defendant in a criminal case on the fact of a fire at my institute. But three examinations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and an examination conducted by the Investigative Committee confirmed my innocence. That is, there is no connection with the fire in the actions or inactions of Academician Pivovarov. But instead of dropping the charges against me and closing the case, in November last year it was transferred from the Department for Especially Important Cases of the Moscow Investigative Committee to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. And instead of one investigator - a senior lieutenant, now I have 8-10 major generals.

The academician called his criminal prosecution a persecution and a political order: “Of course, the emergence of this new case and the investigative measures associated with it, as well as the previous criminal prosecution, is nothing more than persecution. A purely political order, I just don't know yet what to connect it with! Because of one and a half million rubles, which, with the current level of corruption in the country, even looks somehow insulting! Moreover, I did not see this money in my eyes, I did not hold it in my hands, even the investigators were impressed by the modest lifestyle of the honored academician. If I am not arrested today or tomorrow, I will speak, tell, speak. This is not a private matter of an individual, Pivovarov, it can affect everyone.”

We believe that the criminal prosecution of Yuri Pivovarov, as well as the harassment unleashed against him in the media and on the Internet, have no other goals than the following - to break and destroy a public figure who enjoys great authority among the Russian intelligentsia and is not afraid to speak out publicly on topical issues. historical and political issues, as well as to sow fear in the scientific community in order to discourage scientists from freely discussing the current state of affairs in Russia and the world.

Obviously, this is also done in order to undermine the resistance of thinking people to the so-called. "optimization" of scientific and cultural institutions, which boils down to a decrease in state funding for science and culture, an increase in bureaucratic pressure and the suppression of the rights and freedoms of employees of academic institutions, universities, museums, libraries, archives, etc.

We call on Russian and international public organizations and the media to pay close attention to the case of Yuri Pivovarov and speak out in his defense as an unjustly persecuted contemporary Russian dissident. His life is now in real danger, and only public attention to his case can stop the Russian authorities or certain groups of the so-called. "siloviki" from further arbitrariness.

You can put your signature under the Open Letter on the website of the Congress of the Intelligentsia
In connection with the "failure" of the website of the Congress of the Intelligentsia, please send signatures in support of Yuri Pivovarov to the mail of the head of the OOD "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev: [email protected]

Konstantin Azadovsky, literary historian
Lyudmila Alekseeva, human rights activist, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group
Alexander Anikin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yuri Apresyan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Arkadiev, Doctor of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
Vera Afanasyeva, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Nune Barseghyan, writer, psychologist
Sergey Beletsiy, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Sergey Beloglazov, Professor of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky
Alexander Bobrov, philologist
Viktor Bogorad, artist
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, microbiologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Valery Borshchev, human rights activist
Olga Bugoslavskaya, literary critic
Olga Varshaver, translator
Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, publicist, writer
Andrey Vorobyov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergei Gandlevsky, poet
Mikhail Glazov, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yakov Gordin, historian, publicist
Tatyana Goryacheva, art historian
Natalya Gromova, leading researcher at the GLM, writer
Mikhail Dzyubenko, philologist
Vitaly Dixon, writer
Olga Dovgy, philologist
Oleg Dorman, director.
Denis Dragunsky, writer
Olga Drobot, translator
Galina Elshevskaya, art critic
Konstantin Yerusalimsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Victor Esipov, writer
Katya Kapovich, writer, editor of the FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics magazine
Andrey Karavashkin, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Nina Caterly, writer
Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Olga Krokinskaya, professor, doctor of sociological sciences
Alexander Lavrov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pavel Litvinov, human rights activist
Natalya Mavlevich, translator
Dina Magomedova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Alexey Makarkin, political scientist
Alexey Makushinsky, writer
Alexander Makhov, Doctor of Philology
Alexander Moldovan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Maria Nadyarnykh, philologist (IMLI RAS)
Andrey Nikitin-Perensky, founder of the Imwerden electronic library
Sergey Nikolaev, Doctor of Philology
Mikhail Odessky, Doctor of Philology
Tatyana Pavlova, PhD in Philology
Natalya Pakhsaryan, professor at Moscow State University, leading researcher at INION RAS
Grigory Petukhov, poet
Tatyana Pinegina, geologist, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Piontkovsky, publicist
Nikolai Podosokorsky, publicist
Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist
Nina Popova, director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg
Anna Reznichenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Lev Rubinstein, writer
Adrian Selin, Doctor of History
Monika Spivak, Doctor of Philology
Mikhail Sokolov, journalist
Nikita Sokolov, historian
Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer
Irina Staff, philologist, translator
Lyubov Summ, translator
Irina Surat, Doctor of Philology
Lev Timofeev, writer
Elena Titarenko, art critic, journalist
Dmitry Travin, economist
Fedor Uspensky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Chernov, writer
Elena Chizhova, writer
Nikita Shklovsky-Kordi, doctor
Boris Stern, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Troitsky Variant newspaper
Andrey Yurganov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities

Dear Sirs! On the initiative of Nikolai Podosokorsky, a member of the Congress of Intelligentsia, the Congress organizes a collection of signatures in support of Yuri Pivovarov.

You can put your signature on the Congress website by clicking on the link https://nowarcongress.com/petition/957/

OPEN LETTER IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMICIAN OF THE RAS YURI PIVOVAROV

The well-known historian, scientific director of INION, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov, who for 17 years headed the INION of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is now in the hospital, he will have a serious operation. Earlier, searches were carried out at his three addresses and his passport was confiscated, and a criminal case was initiated against him for allegedly fictitious employment at the institute. Yuri Sergeevich Pivovarov is known for his principled position on the defense of INION, he also previously criticized the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was never afraid to comment on the problems of the historical heritage and the prospects for the development of the Russian state. In November 2016, giving a lecture as part of the Evening Readings project, he noted that “Russia is in desperate need of change,” and in February 2017, in an interview with RFI Radio Internationale de France, he said: “No dictatorship in the world has ended well ".

At the beginning of April, Yu.S. Pivovarov spoke about his persecution of Novaya Gazeta: “We can say that since April 20, 2015, criminal prosecution has continued against me. At first, I was accused in a criminal case on the fact of a fire at my institute. Committee, confirmed my innocence. That is, there is no connection with the fire in the actions or inactions of Academician Pivovarov. But instead of dropping the charges against me and closing the case, in November last year it was transferred from the Department for Particularly Important Cases of the Moscow Investigative Committee to the Investigative Committee Russian Federation. And instead of one investigator - a senior lieutenant, now I have 8-10 major generals."

The academician called his criminal prosecution harassment and a political order: “Of course, the appearance of this new case and the investigative measures associated with it, as well as the previous criminal prosecution, is nothing more than harassment. A purely political order, I just don’t know yet what "Because of one and a half million rubles, which, with the current level of corruption in the country, even looks somehow offensive! Moreover, I have neither seen this money nor held it in my hands, even the investigators were impressed by the modest lifestyle of the honored academician. If I am not arrested today or tomorrow, I will speak, tell, speak. This is not a private matter of an individual, Pivovarov, it can affect everyone."

We believe that the criminal prosecution of Yuri Pivovarov, as well as the harassment unleashed against him in the media and on the Internet, have no other goals than the following - to break and destroy a public figure who enjoys great authority among the Russian intelligentsia and is not afraid to speak out publicly on topical issues. historical and political issues, as well as to sow fear in the scientific community in order to discourage scientists from freely discussing the current state of affairs in Russia and the world.

Obviously, this is also done in order to undermine the resistance of thinking people to the so-called. "optimization" of scientific and cultural institutions, which boils down to a decrease in state funding for science and culture, an increase in bureaucratic pressure and the suppression of the rights and freedoms of employees of academic institutions, universities, museums, libraries, archives, etc.

We call on Russian and international public organizations and the media to pay close attention to the case of Yuri Pivovarov and speak out in his defense as an unjustly persecuted contemporary Russian dissident. His life is now in real danger, and only public attention to his case can stop the Russian authorities or certain groups of the so-called. "siloviki" from further arbitrariness.

Konstantin Azadovsky, literary historian

Alexander Anikin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Yuri Apresyan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mikhail Arkadiev, Doctor of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Vera Afanasyeva, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor

Nune Barseghyan, writer, psychologist

Sergey Beletsiy, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Sergey Beloglazov, Professor of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky

Alexander Bobrov, philologist

Viktor Bogorad, artist

Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, microbiologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Olga Bugoslavskaya, literary critic

Olga Varshaver, translator

Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer

Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, publicist, writer

Andrey Vorobyov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sergei Gandlevsky, poet

Mikhail Glazov, physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Tatyana Goryacheva, art historian

Natalya Gromova, leading researcher at the GLM, writer

Mikhail Dzyubenko, philologist

Vitaly Dixon, writer

Oleg Dorman, director.

Denis Dragunsky, writer

Olga Drobot, translator

Galina Elshevskaya, art critic

Konstantin Yerusalimsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Victor Esipov, writer

Katya Kapovich, writer, editor of the magazine "FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics"

Nina Caterly, writer

Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Olga Krokinskaya, professor, doctor of sociological sciences

Pavel Litvinov, human rights activist

Natalya Mavlevich, translator

Dina Magomedova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities

Alexey Makushinsky, writer

Alexander Moldovan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Maria Nadyarnykh, philologist (IMLI RAS)

Andrey Nikitin-Perensky, founder of the Imwerden electronic library

Sergey Nikolaev, Doctor of Philology

Natalya Pakhsaryan, professor at Moscow State University, leading researcher at INION RAS

Grigory Petukhov, poet

Tatyana Pinegina, geologist, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrey Piontkovsky, publicist

Nikolai Podosokorsky, publicist

Nina Popova, director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg

Adrian Selin, Doctor of History

Monika Spivak, Doctor of Philology

Mikhail Sokolov, journalist

Nikita Sokolov, historian

Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer

Irina Staff, philologist, translator

Lyubov Summ, translator

Irina Surat, Doctor of Philology

Lev Timofeev, writer

Elena Titarenko, art critic, journalist

Dmitry Travin, economist

Andrey Chernov, writer

Elena Chizhova, writer

Nikita Shklovsky-Kordi, doctor

Boris Stern, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Troitsky Variant newspaper

Andrey Yurganov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities