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The Office of the President of Ukraine described as “strange” the definition of the politician Viktor Medvedchuk as a “character of the play” in the court decision prohibiting the distribution of journalist Vakhtang Kipiani’s book “The Case of Vasily Stus” without Medvedchuk’s permission .
The President’s Office is surprised by the wording of the decision of the Darnitsa District Court of Kiev, which prohibited the distribution of the book by journalist and historian Vakhtang Kipiani “The Case of Vasily Stus” without the permission of the people’s deputy of the “Platform of the opposition – For life “Viktor Medvedchuk. This was stated by the OPU press service on October 19.
At the same time, the department stressed that “they do not question the independence of the government’s judiciary.”
However, since this book is the processing of an actual repressive criminal case against Vasily Stus, which began in the USSR and in which he was convicted, we consider it strange that the plaintiff Medvedchuk was defined as “a character (actor) of the work”. Most of the content of the book is an exact reprint of materials That is, the purely documentary basis of the book does not raise doubts. Therefore, it is in accordance with this logic of the book that Medvedchuk is a participant in the present process, which took place in history, and not just a “character of the work”. The participant’s behavior was analyzed solely from documented documents. facts that are not the product of the literary creation and literary invention of the authors, “the statement said.
Furthermore, the OPU stressed that censorship in Ukraine is directly and unequivocally “in any form” prohibited by the Constitution.
“We start from the fact that the scientific investigation of history, the processing of materials from the history of our people, in particular with the help of journalistic tools, cannot be limited by the emotions of individual participants in past events. Regardless of the current state and political position of these participants. We call on all citizens to have courage. We honestly look at the past events of our people and the actions or inactions of the people, “added the press service.
The Ukrainian poet and dissident Stus was sentenced in 1980 to 10 years of forced labor and 5 years of exile for anti-Soviet activities. The poet’s lawyer was Medvedchuk. Kipiani’s 700-page book “The Case of Vasily Stus” contains footage from Stus’s arrest to his death in the camp.
The first meeting on Medvedchuk’s claim against Kipiani was held on October 2, 2019.
In a meeting on October 19, 2020, Kiev’s Darnitsa District Court partially satisfied Medvedchuk’s claim and banned the circulation of the book, which mentions the politician. The court found that three sentences in the book were unreliable and three more violated the right to use Medvedchuk’s name.
The marketing director of Vivat publishing house, Ekaterina Avramchuk, said that after the announcement of the judges’ decision, the entire print run of the book sold out in a matter of seconds. Kipiani said he would appeal the court decision.
In August 2018, Medvedchuk’s lawyer demanded that the trial scene be removed from the film “Zaboroniy” about Stus’s life; otherwise, he promised to request the film’s ban in court. Movie crew He decided to leave the scene in the movie.
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