The Russian Ministry of Justice today declared as “foreign agents”: the journalist of Radio Liberty, the scientist Sergei Medvedev, the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, the Memorial human rights center, and the “Need Help” charitable foundation.
The ministry explained its decision regarding Ulitskaya by saying that she allegedly gave interviews and comments to “foreign agents” and foreign media, opposed a “special military operation,” “carried out propaganda for LGBT relations,” and lives abroad. At the end of January, the writer said that royalties from sales of her books “go to Ukraine.” After this, Ulitskaya was deprived of the title of honorary professor at the Russian Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow libraries stopped lending her books, theaters began to cancel performances based on her plays, and the AST publishing house announced that it was suspending payments under all contracts with the writer.
