{"id":7700,"date":"2022-02-24T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:25:13","slug":"to-mr-vladimir-v-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/2022\/02\/24\/to-mr-vladimir-v-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>February 22, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.letters.kremlin.ru\/letters\/send\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.letters.kremlin.ru\/letters\/send<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine is an independent country of its own rich and sophisticated culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have taught dozens of Ukrainian students (who are sensitive, hard-working, and cultured people!) and delivered a paper at Kyiv\u2019s National University-Mohyla Academy. The level of learning there was exceptionally high; it also had an art gallery of excellent quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine is rooted in its long tradition whilst it boasts cultural innovation at the same time: Contemporary literature in Ukrainian, theater, and the other arts are blooming there. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I protest your unacceptable decision of sending troops to Ukraine, hypocritically called \u201cpeacekeepers.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I deplore your actions against civil society (against prisoner of conscience Mr. Alexei A. Navalny and Memorial human rights watchdog) and against LGBTQ culture in Russia and Chechnya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace and democracy must prevail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomasz Kitlinski<br>European citizen<br>14197 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 22, 2022 To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin (http:\/\/en.letters.kremlin.ru\/letters\/send) Ukraine is an independent country of its own rich and sophisticated culture. I have taught dozens of Ukrainian students (who are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18694],"tags":[10214,32741],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}