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The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine recommends reading Vakhtang Kipiani’s book “The Case of Vasily Stus”. This was stated by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Alexander Tkachenko.
Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko announced that he would buy part of the circulation of Vakhtang Kipiani’s book “The Case of Vasily Stus” for his personal money. Tkachenko wrote about this on October 20 on Facebook.
“The creator of the temniks decided to return to his usual role as censor, and the Ukrainian court came to his aid. No matter how emotional the author’s statements are, but now about the role of godfather [президента России Владимира] Putin in the case of the condemnation of the Ukrainian writer by the Soviet system will meet many times more people. Just as his attempt to ban the work of journalists promoted the Orange Revolution, “wrote the minister.
He noted that the Ministry of Culture recommends the book for reading.
“And while the matter is on appeal, I will personally buy part of the circulation for the national libraries,” Tkachenko summarized.
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 the claim of the popular deputy of the “opposition platform – For life” Viktor Medvedchuk to 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.
On the first day after the court decision, the publisher Vivat received more than 9 thousand pre-orders for the book The Case of Vasily Stus.
In August 2018, Medvedchuk’s lawyer demanded that the trial scene be removed from the movie “Zaboroniy” about Stus’s life; otherwise, he promised to request a ban on the film in court. Movie crew He decided to leave the scene in the movie.
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