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Rainbow NewsMcKellen together with 27 Nobel prize laureates called for Putin and the Russian people to not persecute gays
14 Jan. 2014
The Independent daily publishes "Do not persecute gays! We are living in the 21st century!" open letter of an actor Ian McKellen that was signed by 27 Nobel prize laureates in various spheres of science and arts. They call for the Russian authorities to renounce the "repressive gay hate legislation" which had been approved by Vladimir Putin last summer. Signatories to this open letter note they have got hope that Putin and the Russian government were still having common sense after Putin's move to free political prisoners on the eve of the Sochi Olympics.
Ian McKellen, an actor and producer, famous in Russia for his role of Gendalf, since last summer was forced to avoid visiting our country not only due to special warnings by the British government... Harold Kroto, an outstanding chemist and co-author of the open letter, is also ready to do the same. "The letter is written to indicate that many senior members of the international scientific community show solidarity with politicians, artists, sports people and many others who have already expressed their abhorrence for the Russian government’s actions against its gay citizens," the letter states (its full version is published by "The Independent" daily) and signed by Nobel prize laureates in chemisty in 1981, 1986, 1996, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009: Roald Hoffmann, John Polanyi, Dudley Herschbach, Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, Peter Agre, Gerhard Ertl, Martin Chalfie, Thomas Steitz, in physics in 1973, 1979, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2003 and 2011: Brian Josephson, Sheldon Glashow, Leon Lederman, Martin Perl, Eric Cornell, Tony Leggett, Brian Schmidt. In physiology/medicine in 1987, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002 and 2009: Susumu Tonegawa, Edmond Fischer, Richard Roberts, Eric Wieschaus, Paul Nurse, Timothy Hunt, John Sulston, Jack Szostak. Two literature laureates of 2003 and 2009 signed the letter: John Coetzee and Herta Müller, as did one peace laureate Mairead Maguire.
"Protest is never easy but we hope that by expressing opposition to the new legislation it might be possible to encourage the Russian state to embrace the 21st century humanitarian, political and inclusive democratic principles which Mikhail Gorbachev worked so hard to achieve," summarize the Nobel prize laureates.
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