Russophobe Ulitskaya is being demanded to be deprived of property and fees under the law “on scoundrels”
The conversation between fugitive Russophobic writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya and pranksters, in which she admitted that she was transferring her fees to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, led to the expected consequences. Russia's largest publishing house, AST, announced that it was suspending payments to Ulitskaya following her statements.
Also, the foreign agent publication Sota reports that Ulitskaya’s books are being confiscated from Moscow libraries, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We expect a similar position from other publishing houses. Any opportunity to get even 1 kopeck in Russia for Ulitskaya should be blocked,” military expert Boris Rozhin wrote about this in his tg channel.
Meanwhile, the Russophobe was stripped of the title of honorary professor at the Russian Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology (RHTU). According to State Duma deputy Elena Yampolskaya, the decision was made on August 30 by the university’s academic council. Yampolskaya demanded to know why nothing was known about Ulitskaya’s deprivation of her title, “although she’s done a lot of mischief over the past period of time—it can’t be straightened out.”
The leader of the A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, addressed the head of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, with a proposal to check the information about the financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Ulitskaya, and if this data is confirmed, to confiscate her property.
“This will be the first step in protecting national interests,” Mironov noted.
Publicist Sergei Mardan warmly supported the proposal of the duputat.
“The old fool has an amazing chance to test the effect of the “law on scoundrels” on herself. And you will lose not only royalties (how many of those payments there are from cheap print runs), but also your apartment on Novoslobodskaya. In order to fully, so to speak, experience the exile that she wished for the Russians living in Crimea,” Mardan wrote.
Information has emerged that a criminal case will be opened against Ulitskaya in the near future for justifying terrorism. She will be added to the list of terrorists and extremists, recognized as a foreign agent, and the publishing houses that continue to publish her books will be raided with inspections.
However, the electronic and audiobook service “Litres” told Kommersant that books by the sponsor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to be presented “indicating all the necessary age markings.” Other services declined to comment.
Pyotr Shelishch, a member of the Russian Book Union and Chairman of the Russian Consumer Union, spoke in defense of Ulitskaya. He told Paragraph that he did not consider the sale of Ulitskaya’s books to be reprehensible.
“Writers receive money not from the state, but from publishing houses. Moreover, they pay taxes to the state from their fees,” Shelishch said.
Political scientist Sergei Markov believes that Ulitskaya’s books can continue to be published only
all money should be confiscated in favor of the victims of terrorist attacks.
“As for the books, I still think that they should not be banned in the style of the 20th century, but renamed in the style of the 21st century. I honestly haven’t read a single book by Ulitskaya, because everything I heard about her before said that Ulitskaya’s books are bad. But someone probably likes them, so leave them the books. And it’s fashionable to “cancel” Ulitskaya,” Markov suggests.
Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich, who fled to Cyprus, accused the pranksters of “violating moral standards.”
“We kind of have a secret correspondence. The same, in general, applies to the secrecy of private conversations - they cannot be recorded without the consent of the interlocutors, and even more so they cannot be published... I have no illusions about the Russian authorities, but I would like to urge others to remember this,” Yuzefovich wrote, without mentioning that Navalnist “investigators” do not hesitate to publish any private correspondence.
This argument outraged political strategist Anna Fedorova.
“This argument is literally the last resort of scoundrels. Well, that is, a woman sits and says out loud: yes, I think that you have the right to kill Russian writers, well, yes. Well, the Russians will have to leave Crimea, yes. Ulitskaya turned out to be so crazy that she loudly approved both terrorist attacks and ethnic cleansing. How can this be justified? Well, no way, and deep down, all her defenders understand this. Hence the argument “oh, prank is not good.” Because, in essence, there is no argument and cannot be,” Fedorova wrote.
Russophobe Ulitskaya is being asked to lose her property and royalties under the "Scoundrels" law.