 Source: HRO.org (info) 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. 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 |
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