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In terms of content, it usually represents an appeal to a person or group of persons in power with a demand, request, reporting of facts or opinions of signatories on some socially significant issue, or an appeal to the general public in order to draw public attention to a certain issue. Open letters, as a rule, are published in public print media with signatures of individual participants or groups in which they are united.

Purpose

As a rule, open letters are issued by groups of signatories that do not have formal authority and / or technical ability to influence certain social processes or situations that are publicly significant, in their opinion, that concern them. In such a situation, a public letter turns out to be a way to directly "conscientify" the decision makers to whom it is addressed, to indirectly influence their decision by forming the appropriate public opinion.

On the other hand, the writing and publication of open letters can be initiated by the authorities in order to create the appearance of public support for any of their own decisions. In such cases, the direction of the influence of the letter changes to the opposite, it turns from a means of public pressure on the state into a form of state propaganda.

Examples of open letters

Letter of three hundred - a letter from a large group of Soviet scientists, sent on October 11, 1955 to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU with criticism of T. D. Lysenko and Lysenkoism,
Letter from twenty-five figures of Soviet science, literature and art to L. I. Brezhnev against the rehabilitation of I. V. Stalin - written on February 14, 1966 to L. I. Brezhnev about the inadmissibility of partial or indirect rehabilitation of Stalin and the need to publicize the facts committed by him crimes.
Letter of Protest 139, Kiev Letter - a public letter addressed to Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny demanding an end to the practice of illegal political trials in Ukraine.
An open letter to the world community is a public appeal to the world community signed by 133 human rights activists, scientists and public figures in Europe, Canada and the United States in connection with the anti-Armenian pogroms and blockade in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1990.
Letter of fourteen - an open letter from the players of the Russian national team in 1993.
Letter of the 42s - an appeal by a group of well-known writers to citizens, the government and the president of Russia regarding the events of September 21 - October 4, 1993, demanding the adoption of strict prohibitive measures against communist and nationalist activities and propaganda.
Letter of fifty - Appeal of cultural figures, scientists, members of the public in connection with the verdict passed on the former leaders of the Yukos Oil Company.
Letter from 10 academicians - "The policy of the ROC MP: consolidation or collapse of the country?" - an open letter from academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the clericalization of society and the education system in Russia.
Letter from Viktor Cherkesov with a call to stop the conflict within the "Chekist community".
A letter from a group of cultural figures (Zurab Tsereteli, Nikita Mikhalkov and others) calling on V.V. Putin to stay for a third term. This letter spawned a flood of counter-letters demanding the opposite.
A letter from a group of cultural figures to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urging him to block proposed legislative changes that would allow the digitization of books for electronic libraries without the consent of the authors and the payment of royalties.
The letter of fifty-five is an appeal published on March 3, 2011 on the Internet by 55 figures of culture, science and show business, condemning the "information undermining of confidence in the judicial system of the Russian Federation."
Letter from residents of the city of Alexandrov, Vladimir Region, to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin with a request to give the city the status of an "okrug" and restore local self-government.

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Candidate for President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin
from the Council labor collective International Center of the Roerichs

OPEN LETTER

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! The staff of the International Roerich Center (ICR) is contacting you. With pain in our hearts, we bring to you the information about the destruction of the largest public Museum named after Nicholas Roerich in Russia. This event negatively affects not only the state of culture and the development of civil society in Russia, but also damages Russia's image abroad.

There was a violation of a whole range of constitutional rights of the ICR and citizens of Russia:
-- ownership of the ICR, the organization was left without property and financial support;
- the property of the ICR was transferred for safekeeping to the State Museum of Art of the Peoples of the East (SMO) without inventories;
- The ICR is deprived of the former opportunity to conduct broad cultural and educational activities;
Employees were left without jobs and livelihoods.

Not to mention the fact that, according to lawyers, the ICR is not connected with the investigative actions in the Master Bank case, under the cover of which the seizure of all the property of the ICR was carried out. Press conference of the ICR, held on January 30, 2018. in Rosbalt, the central media were silent, while they actively posted false information during the seizure of the public Museum named after Nicholas Roerich.

The capture of our Museum in the center of Moscow in 2017, in its senselessness and barbarity, surpassed even the tragedy of Palmyra, since it was not ISIS terrorists (an organization banned in Russia - ed.) that became the destroyers, but quite respectable officials dressed in scientific titles and high positions. But it was they who cynically tried to turn the efforts of many of their fellow citizens into dust and ashes, who, at the behest of their hearts, restored the dilapidated Lopukhins' estate at the expense of folk funds and created the largest public Museum of the International Center of the Roerichs in Russia.

And now, for their unselfishness, these people were slandered, humiliated, robbed and ruthlessly thrown into the street, the will of S.N. Roerich, who transferred the legacy of his family to Russia to create a public Museum, was cynically trampled. The promises of the state, given to S.N. Roerich, are grossly violated after 27 years! There is no more unique exposition, no museum exhibits, no paintings by N.K. and S.N. Roerichs, who once delighted visitors so much. There is nothing now but bare walls, painted a mouse-gray color that has turned its halls into a series of dreary, featureless rooms. Was it really done in the interests of Russia?!

The promises of the Ministry of Culture to create a State Museum turned out to be a complete fiction, since after 9 months nothing was done by his proteges from the State Museum of the East that could really confirm the seriousness of the officials' intentions. The museum is closed for an indefinite period of time, except for a hastily made temporary exhibition, which arouses more bewilderment and indignation than aesthetic pleasure among true connoisseurs of the Roerichs' work. Gradually, the territory of the Lopukhins' Estate falls into disrepair; under various pretexts, the necessary Maintenance its buildings and structures.

Moreover, the threat of loss hung over the priceless Roerich Heritage, which is a cultural heritage not only of Russia, but of the whole world. However, for the Ministry of Culture, the monetary equivalent of this Heritage turned out to be a priority. The Ministry of Culture flatly refused the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights to create an independent commission to check its existence and condition and does not inform the public about its safety.

The location of the museum collections of the ICR is currently unknown. It can be assumed that they will face the same sad fate as the legacy of the Roerichs, which remained in the apartment of Yu.N. Roerich, which was plundered, or the fate of the collection of S.N. Roerich, which was temporarily stored in the State Museum of the East, where part of the canvases indicated in the will of S.N. Roerich disappeared. The unique archive of the Roerichs and the memorial library of the ICR, where completely unauthorized persons were admitted, are not properly protected.

An outrageous situation has also developed with the personal property of the ICR employees: the safes were broken into, documents, money and personal valuables of some employees were lost. The question is, what did the personal belongings of employees have to do with the Master Bank case?

Despite the fact that all the property of the ICR has been transferred to the custody of the SMOA, there are no acts and lists of property. Tigran Mkrtychev, director of the newly-minted State Roerich Museum, who was present together with adviser to the Minister of Culture K.E. for safekeeping, there was no detailing and inventory” (article in “Sobesednik” dated February 5, 2018). What a convenient situation was provided by the Main Investigation Department for Moscow to the leadership of the SMOA for theft!!! Thus, the ground is set for government officials to shirk responsibility for violating legal and ethical laws.

Having received all three buildings of the ICR for such safekeeping, the leaders of the State Roerich Museum, with the support of the leadership of the Ministry of Culture, began to destroy the exposition of the public Museum named after N.K. Roerich, which was highly appreciated by famous figures of culture and science of the modern world. The costly showcases that have been shattered to smithereens cannot be restored, it is clear that they were hit with some heavy object, the locks were cut out with priceless museum exhibits of the 17th-18th centuries in them, although the keys were available. The original glass friezes of the halls, which were simply broken out instead of carefully removed, were barbarously destroyed, and artistic dioramas were also mutilated. The layout of the Russian space station Mir, on board of which the Banner of Culture, Roerich's Banner of Peace, has been dismantled and is practically beyond repair has been dismantled. Crumpled and carelessly thrown batik, created according to the sketch of N.K. Roerich "The Queen of Heaven over the River of Life", destroyed by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. Some sculptures of the museum exposition were damaged. We are not talking about broken and dismantled expensive office furniture. Dismantled office equipment dumped in the toilets. The memorial office of the founder and General Director of the Museum named after Nicholas Roerich L. V. Shaposhnikova was completely liquidated

What a terrible line our society has come to if cultural officials can destroy a public museum with impunity with full support state structures and with the tacit consent of the cultural community?

Apparently, these destructions were not accidental. The new owners, apparently, took pleasure in destroying the Museum they hated, intoxicated with their impunity and confident that their vandalism would never become public. But they miscalculated. The country should know not only its heroes, but also the vandals. Therefore, V.R. Medinsky, V.V. Aristarkhov, K.E. Rybak, A.A. Sedov and T.K. Mkrtychev will forever remain in history with the shameful stigma of the destroyers of the largest public Museum named after N.K. Roerich, founded by our great compatriot S.N. Roerich and created by him confidant- L.V. Shaposhnikova.

The metropolitan museums of Moscow and St. Petersburg, which have a large collection of paintings by N.K. and S.N. Roerichs, continue to keep them in storerooms. Now visitors have finally lost the opportunity to see the paintings of these great masters, since the public Museum named after N.K. Roerich, the only one who represented their work so widely, was destroyed. Thus, the right of citizens to get acquainted with the work of the great Roerich family has been violated. With all responsibility, one can speak not about perpetuating the memory of the Roerich family in the Motherland, but about crusade against them and their legacy by Russian officials.

The silence of the cultural community untied the hands of the vandals. The information space of Russia was filled with cries for help from museum workers, the scientific community, and creative teams, who are also mercilessly driven out into the street. With bitterness in the heart, the wise saying “Beware of the indifferent, because with their silent consent the most terrible thing is happening in the world” is remembered. As history shows, for vandalism in Russian culture, including vandalism in the public Museum named after N.K. Roerich, responsibility will be borne not only by the greedy officials of the Ministry of Culture, but also by the entire cultural community, which did not consider it necessary to intervene and stop the ongoing lawlessness. Only a careful attitude to Culture will contribute to the further prosperity of our country.

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! During your presidency, the Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy were developed and adopted, in which great importance is attached to the role of the public in the preservation and development of the country's culture. The fate of our public museum, unfortunately, shows that in practice everything is different. We ask you to help restore the activities of the public Museum named after Nicholas Roerich of the International Center of the Roerichs, destroyed by vandals from the State Museum of Oriental Art, and bring those responsible to justice. We also ask you to stop the further destruction of the very organization "International Center of the Roerichs", which they are trying to liquidate, so as not to leave either the victim or the witness.

Council of the labor collective of the International Center of the Roerichs

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

From a citizen of the Russian Federation Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! Perhaps our generation is very lucky. We have a real opportunity to start building a prosperous, prosperous state, firmly protected from external aggressors, internal conflicts, and crime. A state in which happy families will live in abundance. Our generation can not only start building a beautiful country, but will also have time to live in it, if there is good will from those in power at the legislative level to allocate one hectare of land to each family who wants to arrange their family estate on it. A fairly simple action will cause the impulse of most people from different strata of society to creation, to creativity.

Land should be allocated free of charge, for life use, with the right to be inherited. Products produced in family estates should not be subject to any taxes.

Agree, Vladimir Vladimirovich, an abnormal, illogical situation has developed now: every Russian seems to have a Motherland, and no one can show where his personal piece of this Motherland is. If each family receives it and turns it into a blooming piece of paradise, then the big Motherland will become beautiful.

Today's plans for the development of the country do not inspire people to create, because it is not clear where, to what future they will lead. The construction of a democratic, economically developed state according to the Western model is, perhaps, even intuitively rejected by the majority of the population. And I think that it is not in vain rejected. If we think sensibly, then why should we, each and all put together, spend efforts to eventually build a state in which drug addiction, prostitution, and banditry will flourish? But all this is present in the West.

We used to think that in the so-called highly developed countries there is an abundance of food, but now it turns out that this abundance was achieved through the use of all kinds of chemical additives to the soil of pesticides, as well as through genetic engineering. We have seen that imported food loses in taste to ours. For example, in Germany they are happy to buy potatoes imported from Russia.

In a number of countries, governments, concerned about this situation with products, have already issued regulations on their special labeling. The use of food products obtained as a result of genetic engineering is causing increasing alertness and scientists. America and Germany were in the forefront in the number of cancers per capita. Should we follow their path? I think that such a path will inspire few people. But we are resigned to what is being promoted imported goods and Western way of life. They resigned themselves to the fact that more and more new diseases appear, to the fact that water can only be drunk from bottles bought in a store, to the fact that the population of Russia annually decreases by seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Everything is like theirs. After all, in highly developed countries, the birth rate is falling. We strive to be like them in many ways. But more than once I have heard from people living in these countries about their hope. The hope that Russia is in search and must certainly find its own path of development, to show the whole world a happier way of life.

Mr. President, no doubt, various programs of the country's development were offered for your consideration. If among others this proposal seems doubtful to you, I ask you to test it as an experiment in the regions, the governors of which will be able to see a rational grain in it ...

This proposal is discussed in more detail in the books of the Ringing Cedars of Russia series, which I am the author of. It is hard for me to imagine that, being in the flurry of state affairs, you personally could read them. However, relevant administrative bodies familiar with them and have already delivered their verdict. They determined that these books gave rise to a new religion in Russia, which is spreading "with the speed of forest fire." This opinion is also expressed in a number of publications in the press. This conclusion came as a complete surprise to me. I expressed my attitude towards God in books, but I did not think about creating any kind of religion. I just wrote books about an unusual beautiful hermit of the Siberian taiga and her ardent dream of beauty. The stormy reaction of people of different social status, the popularity of books in Russia and abroad, perhaps, is similar to religiosity. But I think the issue here is quite different. The ideas, philosophy, awareness of the Siberian hermit, the language with which she communicates, excite people's souls.

Probably, analysts will not come to a consensus for a long time about who Anastasia is and what the books with her statements mean, how to define the reaction to them - let them figure it out. The specific proposals that Anastasia makes would not be drowned in these showdowns.

Vladimir Vladimirovich, in order to verify the effectiveness of what Anastasia proposes with regard to land, you can conduct an experiment, regardless of who Anastasia and V. Megre are. It is possible to test its less significant statements.

First, I think it will not be difficult for the staff of your office to instruct the relevant research institute to conduct a simple analysis of the effectiveness of Anastasia's proposal regarding the purification of harmful dust from the air in large cities. The essence of this proposal is set out in my first book.

Second: to instruct to analyze the Siberian cedar nut oil as a medicinal tonic. Information from ancient sources, modern research by scientists from Tomsk University confirm Anastasia's statement that this natural product, subject to a certain technology for its production, is one of the most effective remedies in the world in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. More extensive than in Siberia, plantations on which the fruit-bearing cedar grows, do not exist in the world.

The Russian budget could have tangible profits from the supply of this product to the international market and its use within the country. Required Government program on the use of wild plants of Siberia. A program that does not provide for the organization of large manufacturing enterprises, but the deployment of a network of small ones, with the involvement of people living in remote Siberian regions. The implementation of this program does not require large capital investments, only a legislative decision is needed that allows local residents to receive long-term leases of taiga lands.

In general, Vladimir Vladimirovich, life steadily confirms statements that are more incredible at first glance. Personally, I am absolutely convinced of the wonderful future of our country. The only question is whether those who live today will speed it up or slow it down. I sincerely wish you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and all of us living today, to be the creators of a wonderful future!

Sincerely, Vladimir Megre

Instruction

Formulate the main problem (topic). It must be important to many people. Most often, open letters draw attention to negative facts in the field of health care, education, utilities, etc.

Determine the addressee of the letter, i.e. the official, civil servant, leader to whose attention you want to bring information on the controversial issue. You can apply to the President of the Russian Federation, the governor, the deputy, to CEO, class teacher, etc. It is important that the addressee is empowered to solve the problem or has a direct relationship with it.

Consider the structure of the letter. If you are writing a collective appeal, consider the opinion of each author. Discuss what goal you want to achieve with an open letter, what facts you need to provide to confirm your case, what solutions you see and can offer to solve the problem.

Draft the letter. State your claims with reason, and thoughts and facts consistently. Start by describing the situation that prompted you to write an open letter. List the actions you have taken and their results, or lack thereof. Since this format is intended to generalize, link specific facts together, highlighting commonalities. Thus, when publicly criticizing the housing and communal services reform in the region, cite several cases of violation of the rights of apartment owners, refer to available documents and expert opinion.

You can also write an open letter in the form of reasoning, reflection. This form is more suitable for moral, ethical issues. The reasoning letter is addressed, as a rule, not to an individual, but to the public, social group, population of the region, etc. For example, you are worried about the clutter of city streets. One of the reasons for this you think is the low level of culture of the townspeople. Therefore, in an open letter you reflect on the responsibility of a citizen, on upbringing by personal example and appeal to fellow countrymen to take care of their native city.

Reread the draft letter. Exclude incorrect and rude statements. Correct the mistakes. Be sure to specify the positions, last names, first names and patronymics of all the people mentioned in the letter.

Type the letter or write in legible handwriting. Use white A4 paper. Write only on one side of the sheet, respecting the margins. If you plan to send an email, save it in a text format that can be read on any computer.

On the last page of the letter, authors should put personal signatures. Anonymous messages are not credible and may not be accepted for consideration. You can attach a file with scanned signatures to the electronic version of an open letter.

Decide how you want to make the open letter public. The most popular are the following options: publication in the press (federal, regional, corporate), reading on the air of a television or radio program, posting on the official website of the organization. To place an open letter in the media, you must first contact the editors and discuss the necessary details. When publishing an open letter on the Internet, do it on special pages of official websites. This opportunity is provided by most Internet portals of state and municipal authorities, as well as public organizations, control and oversight bodies.

Useful advice

Act consistently. Use an open letter when other ways to solve a problem have been exhausted.

Anyone can find themselves in a difficult situation. If all options for solving the problem have been exhausted, it may be worth considering appealing to the head of state. For this, there is no need to make “the necessary acquaintances”, you just need to correctly compose a request.

You will need

A sheet of paper and a pen or a computer with Internet access.

Instruction

If you have a computer and Internet access, you can send a letter through the official website of the President of the Russian Federation kremlin.ru. At the top of the main page, select the "Contacts" section. The screen will display information about the application requirements. In particular, the text must be in Russian, no more than two thousand characters, without insults and obscene language. Carefully read this information, then click on the button at the bottom of the page "Send a letter". Before sending, the system will ask you to fill out a simple form. You must provide your first and last name, address Email, as well as the country and region where you are located. The rest of the fields are optional. Please note that this way only suitable if you have a specific offer or statement.

Messages and questions of a general nature should be sent through the president's personal blog blog.kremlin.ru. But only registered users can chat with him. For registration, you need to fill out a questionnaire of a statistical nature. Then you will have to wait a while while the moderators check the registration data. After your Account is approved, it will be possible to leave comments on the blog of the head of state.

If addressing the President of the Russian Federation via the Internet does not suit you, write to him by regular mail. Letters are accepted at st. Ilyinka, 23, 103132, Moscow, Russia. Be sure to include your return address in full. If the envelope is incomplete or illegible, the letter will not be accepted for consideration.

Another way to attract the attention of the leader of the country is an open letter. It can be published on your personal blog or in a public newspaper. In addition, there are many resources on the global network for hosting such manifestos. Such an appeal can be signed by one person or a group of interested persons.

How to send a letter to the President via the Internet

One of the ways to send a letter to the President of Russia is the official website of the President of the Russian Federation http: //www. Kremlin.ru. Anyone wishing to apply to the President can take advantage of this opportunity by going to the "Appeals" section at: Write a letter and send an e-mail directly to the President or to his Administration.

The main requirement in order to send a letter to V.V. Putin - the presence of his own electronic mailbox.

An electronic mailbox is needed not only to send a message to the President, but also to receive a response to your letter.

Before writing an appeal, you need to carefully read the rules for writing letters to the President.

The length of the e-mail should not exceed four thousand characters. You can check the number of characters in the "Statistics" section in Microsoft Word. Try to succinctly state the facts on the subject of the letter and at the end write what decision you want from the self-government bodies that have violated the law.

The appeal may be accompanied by materials or documents in the format jpg‚ pdf‚ wmv‚ pps‚ tif‚ ppt‚ txt‚ flv‚ bmp‚ avi‚ mov‚ rtf‚ xls‚ png‚ mp3‚ wma‚ pcx‚ doc‚ mp4‚ mkv. Files must not be zipped, the size of attached files cannot exceed 5 MB.

Complaints to the President of the Russian Federation

Complaints to the President about actions or omissions official are also sent to the address: Write a complaint

When composing a message, it is important to remember that a letter is not accepted for consideration if:

the text is a continuous canvas without division into separate sentences
it contains profanity or offensive language
e-mail specified in the questionnaire is invalid or incomplete
the text is typed in Russian, but printed in Latin letters
text in full capital letters