![]() Janet Sylvester, Harvard Extension/writer Yuri Omelchenko, Shevchenko Scientific Society Jim Walsh, Massachusetts Democratic Party Lew Mykola Hryhorczuk, Wayne State University Yuri Yanchyshyn, Period Furniture Conservation Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, RiversideĬarol L. Gwendolyn Albert, independent human rights activist Todd Drogy, University of Massachusetts BostonĪlla Atamanenko, Ostroh Academy National University Black, Diocese of MA, The Episcopal Church Irina Smirnova, University of Kansas Medical Center Yuliya Ladygina, Pennsylvania State UniversityĪlexey Ladokhin, University of Kansas Medical Center Irene Martyniuk, Fitchburg State University Lloyd Schwartz, Poet Laureate of Somerville, MA Nestor Rychyckyj, Shevchenko Scientific SocietyĬatherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University Zenon John Kossak, Ukrainian Medical Association of North America Iryna Zenyuk, University of California Irvine Rossitza Iordanova, Toronto District School BoardĪmelia Glaser, University of California San Diego Maeva Berghmans Chargros, Palacký University Olomouc Liber, University of Alabama at Birmingham Nicholas Kyle Kupensky, United States Air Force Academy Roman Szporluk, Harvard University (emeritus)Īndrea Graziosi, Universitá di Napoli Féderico II ![]() Oksana Lutsyshyna, University of Texas at Austin Steven Seegel, University of Texas at AustinĪlexander Kuzma, Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University Myroslava Tomorug Znayenko, Rutgers University Sophia Wilson, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Ostap Kin, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University Paul D’Anieri, University of California, Riverside Leonid Hrabovsky, Shevchenko Scientific SocietyĪmerican Association for Ukrainian Studies Board MembersĮmily Channell-Justice, Harvard University Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. Myron Stachiw, historian and independent scholar Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern UniversityĪnna Procyk, Kingsborough Community CollegeĪndrew Sorokowski, lawyer and independent scholar Martha Kichorowska Kebalo, World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s OrganizationsĪskold Melnyczuk, writer, University of Massachusetts, Boston Solomiya Ivakhiv, University of Connecticut Jurij Dobczansky, Shevchenko Scientific Society Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University Virko Baley, University of Nevada Las Vegas Melissa Bokovoy, University of New Mexico (President, AWSS) Oxana Shevel, Tufts University (President, AAUS) Halyna Hryn, Harvard University (President, NTSh-A) ![]() (NTSh-A)Īssociation for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. The American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) We call on all of you to join with Ukrainians in solidarity, rejecting the illegal efforts of the Russian government to destroy an independent sovereign state with a democratically elected government in Ukraine. His plans for repression in Ukraine reveal that Putin will use this military invasion to destroy groups and institutions that have fought hard for human rights, media freedom, and other democratic advances in Ukraine, just as he has done at home, where he has used violence against reformers and activists attempting to promote human rights and civil society in Russia. He also seeks to silence scholars who have researched Stalinist atrocities such as the Holodomor, the complexities of World War II, and other subjects that do not correspond with Putin’s affirmative view of Soviet history. To turn back the clock and destroy the Ukrainian state, he has compiled “kill lists” and made broader plans of repression to rein in what he calls “Nazism and extremism.” In reality, he is targeting the democratically elected Ukrainian government, the independent media, and various civil rights activists, including LGBTQ rights advocates. In remarks intended to justify this invasion, President Vladimir Putin indicates that he considers Ukrainians to be part of the Russian nation and Ukrainian statehood to be illegitimate. After the Orange Revolution of 2004, when Ukrainian citizens rejected the results of a rigged election, the Russian government has grown increasingly belligerent. Since independence in 1991, Ukraine has declared it a state priority to integrate with the EU and the West. We are shocked and appalled by this unprovoked war of aggression. Unarmed civilian populations in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and other cities across Ukraine are currently under attack in what is the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II. We condemn the decision by the President of Russia to invade Ukraine. ![]()
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