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![]() They aim to spread the word, and seek comfort from each other without their views being captured and deleted by government censorship. ![]() Shuhrat is one of many Chinese who felt the urge to speak out against Russia’s attack on Ukraine and found creative ways to do so. “Then, I felt like I had to do something, to cut ties with him, to take what I love back from him.” ![]() “For the next 10 years, when I say I’m a Russian literature scholar, people will think of Putin and people will think, ‘What is your connection to all the bloodshed?’ “As a Russia researcher, I felt like the things I do every day are brought to destruction,” Shuhrat explains, his voice tinged with a mixture of anger and resignation. But his work on Dostoevsky over the years has him thinking the author was “a chauvinist who could have supported Putin”, and now it’s become almost unbearable for him to continue. Shuhrat is a Chinese scholar who has lived in Russia for seven years and is now writing a PhD thesis on Fyodor Dostoevsky. “For the entire day on the 24th, I do not know what to do, I was completely stunned,” he says. On February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his “special military operation in Ukraine”, Chinese scholar Shuhrat* felt that the thing he treasured most in this world – Russian literature – was being annihilated. *Some names in this article have been changed to avoid identification as sources were concerned for their safety. ![]()
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