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    Emil Lazarian
  • 5 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Ukrainian Union of Writers blacklists Armenian, Russian, Belarusian authors

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 13:12,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS. Ukraine’s Union of Writers announced it is refusing to publish books of authors from countries who as they described have “acted against the Ukrainian territorial integrity” in the UN and other international organizations.

Armenia, Russia and Belarus are also blacklisted by the writers’ union, according to RIA Novosti.

According to the announcement, the Union of Writers of Ukraine is willing to make an “exception” for the books of late classic authors from these countries, or contemporary writers who will publicly “support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemn Russia’s aggression”.

Apart from Armenia, Russia and Belarus, the following countries were also blacklisted: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, China, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Serbia, Syria and Sudan.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS