10 ноября 2014

Министру юстиции Российской Федерации

А. В. Коновалову

К вниманию Чрезвычайного и Полномочного посла РФ в США

С. И. Кисляка

Уважаемый Александр Владимирович,

Мы обращаемся к Вам, чтобы выразить нашу самую высокую оценку деятельности общества «Мемориал» и целиком поддержать письмо, которое наши французские коллеги написали Вам в связи с ситуацией, сложившейся в последнее время вокруг «Мемориала» и чреватой закрытием этого важного центра исторических исследований в России (cм. документ в приложении). Вместе с нашими французскими коллегами мы призываем Вас употребить всю Вашу власть и влияние и решить проблему с легальным  статусом «Мемориала» таким образом, чтобы это заслуженное сообщество ученых смогло продолжить свои усилия по сохранению  российской исторической памяти, развитию исторических исследований и достижению лучшего понимания трагической истории ХХ века. Чем лучше мы будем понимать прошлое и чем более будем открыты в наших дискуссиях о нем, тем больше у нас шансов избежать повторения тех же ошибок, которые могут привести к тем же трагическим последстивиям.

С уважением,

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November 10, 2014

Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation

A. V. Konovalov

For the attention of S. I. Kislyak

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the U.S.A.

Dear Minister Konovalov,

We are writing to express our highest appreciation of the activities of the Memorial Society and our full support to the letter that our French colleagues have written to you regarding the situation that has recently emerged around Memorial and threatens this very important center of historical research in Russia with closure (see attachment). Together with French colleagues, we urge you to use all your power and influence to find a solution to the problem of Memorial's legal status so that this distinguished learned society can continue its efforts aiming at preserving Russian historical memory, fostering historical research, and contributing to a better understanding of the twentieth-century tragic history. The better we understand the past and the more open we are in our discussions of it, the more chances we have to prevent making the same mistakes that could again lead to the same tragedies.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Adelman, Professor, Director, Global History Lab, Princeton University

Gleb J. Albert, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich

Catherine Allan, Senior Executive Producer, tpt National Productions

Ian Appleby, translator

Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director Institute for the Study of Human Rights and SIPA, Columbia University

Jonathan Bendor, Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University

Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures, Harvard University

Jonathan Brent, Executive Director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Jeffrey Brooks, Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford

Wayles Browne, Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University

Leonid Bunimovich, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Robert Chandler, Translator

Ammon Cheskin, Lecturer in Nationalism and Identity, University of Glasgow

Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor, University of Virginia

Nancy N. Condee, Professor, Director, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

Richard Conn, Attorney

Wim Coudenys, Lecturer in Russian and European History and Culture, Academic coordinator for international relations, KU Leuven / Antwerp Campus

John Dewey, Writer and translator

Sasha Dugdale, Translator / writer, Sussex UK

Anna Dvigubski, Lecturer in Russian, Barnard College

Gisela Erbsloeh, Medienautorin

Mieka Erley, Assistant Professor, Colgate University

Mikhail Epstein, S. C. Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Emory University, USA

Dr Friedrich Firsov, Professor of History, Moscow

Michael Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University

Dr Siggy Frank, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies School of Cultures, University of Nottingham, University Park

Juliane Furst, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Bristol, UK

Anne Marie Jackson, Translator

Boris Gasparov, Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian Studies, Columbia University

Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Associate Professor, Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Emory University

Karen Hewitt, MBE, Oxford University and Honorary Professor of Perm State University

Jeffrey A. Hosking, Distinguished Academician, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor Emeritus of Russian History, University College, London

Caroline Humphrey, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

John Earl Haynes, Political Historian, Library of Congress, USA

Sam Hodgkin, Ph.D. student, University of Chicago

Robin Jacoby, Professor, Oxford

Shoshana Keller, Chair, Department of History, Hamilton College

Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford

Dina Khapaeva, Professor of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University

Elizabeth Kiss, President & Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Agnes Scott College

Evgeny Kissin, musician

Thomas Kitson, Independent Scholar, New York

Nikolay Koposov, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies, Harvard University, and Senior Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies

Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Associate Professor of Russian, Director of Russian Studies, Bucknell University

Stephen Lovell, Professor of Modern History, King's College London

Maria Mälksoo, Senior Researcher in International Relations, University of Tartu

Julia Mannherz, Associate Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

Brendan McGeever, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

J. K. McLaughlin, International Epidemiology Institute USA

Melanie Moore, translator

Gary Saul Morson, Professor of Slavic Languages, Northwestern University

Alexander Nakhimovsky, Director, Linguistics Program, Colgate University Hamilton

Alice Nakhimovsky, Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Jewish Studies, Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University

Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Dr Edward Nye, Fellow of Lincoln College and University Lecturer in French, University of Oxford

Kerry Pannell, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the College, Professor of Economics, Agnes Scott College

Natasha Perova, GLAS New Russian Writing

Richard Pipes, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Kevin M. F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University

Cathy Popkin, Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Kirill Postoutenko, Ikerbasque Visiting Professor, University of the Basque Country

David Powelstock, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University

Anson Rabinbach, Professor of History, Princeton University

James Rann, Lecturer in Russian at Queen Mary University of London and translator

Caroline Rees, Translator

Anna Reid, Writer and historian

Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford

Alti Rodal, Co-Director, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Berel Rodal, Board Director, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Sharon Werning Rivera, Associate Professor of Government, Hamilton College

Marian Schwartz, Translator, Austin, Texas, USA

Robert Service, PhD, St Antony's College, Oxford

Dr Samantha Sherry, Leverhulme Fellow in Russian, University College, Oxford

Irina Shevelenko, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University

Cynthia Simmons, Professor of Slavic Studies, Boston College

Volodymyr Sklokin, Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard University

Douglas Smith, Historian, Seattle, USA

G. S. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Russian, University of Oxford

Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Associate Professor of Russian, Emory University

Carol B Stevens, Professor, History Department, Colgate University

Tony Swift, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Essex

Joanna Szostek, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London

Arch Tait, Translator

Marek Tamm, Professor, University of Tallinn

William Mills Todd III, Harvard College Professor, Harry Tuchman Levin Prof. of Literature

Dr Anna Toropova, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge

Kate Tunstall, University of Oxford

Tomas Venclova, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures Yale University

Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Dr Jonathan Waterlow, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History, University of Oxford, UK

Leon Wieseltier

Faith Wigzell, Emeritus Professor, UCL-School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London

Justin Wilmes, Ohio State University

Christine D. Worobec, Board of Trustees and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Northern Illinois University

Emmanuel Zingeris, MP, Parliament of Lithuania

Dr Josephine von Zitzewitz, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge

Richard Bernstein, journalist and author, New York

Dr Philip Boobbyer, School of History, University of Kent

Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux

Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, University of Oxford

Arlene Forman, Oberlin College

Henrietta Foster

Madina Goldberg, Visiting Kirk Scholar in History, Agnes Scott College

Stuart Goldberg, Associate Professor of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Senior Research Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute, Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Honorary Fellow, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University

John Earl Haynes, historian, USA

Robin Jacoby, Professor Emeritus of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Katharine Kennedy, Professor of History, Agnes Scott College

Marcus C. Levitt, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California

Dr C.M. MacRobert, University Lecturer in Russian Philology and Comparative Slavonic Philology, University of Oxford

Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

Norman Manea, Professor  European literature and writer in residence, Bard College

Michael J. Mikoś, Professor and Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr Michael Nicholson, University College, Oxford

Simon Pawley, College Lecturer in Modern History, Oriel College, University of Oxford

Joe Peschio, Associate Professor of Russian and Coordinator, Slavic Languages Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Madeleine Reeves, University of Manchester

Tatiana Shaposhnikova, editor, Glas Publishing

Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University

Mirjam Sprau, Germany

Deborah Waroff,  journalist, MECFS Alert, New York

Susan Welsh, translator and editor, Virginia, USA

H.N.A. Willcox, Professor of Neurosciences, Oxford University

Dr Sarah J. Young, Senior Lecturer in Russian, University College, London

Froma I. Zeitlin, Emerita Professor, Princeton University