The letter was received by the censors of the IK-8 Labytnangi
institution for processing on August 20, 2018.
Dear Oleg,
We keep thinking about your struggle with awe and sympathize with it. All
throughout these one hundred days, members of “The Free Word Association” has
been trying to support your demands by individual and public actions and
statements and to remind Russia and the world of your fate as well as of
the fate of other Ukrainian prisoners.
Now that there is some hope that the exchange of prisoners might start, we
believe three times stronger than before: You will see this happen. And we
believe that you will return home.
On August 21, Russian embassies in different countries will get letters
addressed to you. We expect that as a result of this message marathon the information
block around you will be broken, and you will learn how actively and consistently people
around the world support your standpoint.
We are waiting and hoping with you.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina, journalist
Elena Baevskaya, translator
Leonid Bakhnov, writer
Irina Balakhonova, publisher
Nune Barseghyan, writer
Dmitry Bavilsky, writer
Irina Bogatyreva, writer
Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, writer
Marina Boroditskaya, poet, translator
Natalia Demina, journalist
Vitaly Dixon, writer
Veronica Dolina, the poet
Olga Drobot, translator
Maria Falikman, poet, translator
Sergey Gandlevsky, writer
Alisa Ganieva, writer
Alexander Gelman, playwright
Christina Gorelik, journalist
Varvara Gornostaeva, publisher
Mark Greenberg, translator
Natalia Gromova, writer
Natalia Ivanova, writer
Gennady Kalashnikov, poet
Dmitry Karelsky, translator
Nina Katerli, writer
Igor Kharichev, writer
Nikolai Kononov, writer
Irina Kravtsova, editor
Gennady Krasukhin, literary critic
Grigory Kruzhkov, poet, translator
Alexander Livergant, translator
Victor Matizen, film critic
Natalia Mavlevich, translator
Anton Nechaev, writer
Pavel Nerler, literary critic
Leonid Nikitinsky, journalist
Lev Oborin, poet, translator
Maxim Osipov, writer
Sergei Parkhomenko, journalist
Andrei Plakhov, film critic, film critic
Alesha Prokopiev, poet, translator
Maria Rybakova, writer
Vyacheslav Sereda, translator
Tatiana Shcherbina, writer
Viktor Shenderovich, writer
Alla Shevelkina, journalist
Alexey Slapovsky, writer
Boris Sokolov, historian, writer
Natalia Sokolovskaya, writer
Irina Staf, translator
Dmitry Stakhov, writer
Tatyana Sotnikova (Anna Berseneva), writer
Vladimir Sotnikov, writer
Lyubov Summ, translator
Zoya Svetova, journalist
Lev Timofeev, writer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, writer
Olga Varshaver, translator
Marina Vishnevetskaya, writer
Alina Vitukhnovskaya, writer
Sergei Yakovlev, writer
Georgy Yefremov, poet, translator
Victor Yessipov, literary critic, poet