According to RIA Novosti, this was stated in the conclusion of the institute’s commission.
As noted in the material, the writer allegedly had a biased and negative attitude towards everything Ukrainian, and his work is associated with the glorification of the “imperial policy” of Russia.
Thus, the institute considered the assignment of his name to geographical objects, names of legal entities, objects of toponymy and the establishment of monuments in his honor in Ukraine as an element of this policy.
In this document, the institute also accused other Russian cultural figures of allegedly abandoning humanism when it came to discussing the Ukrainian issue. Thus, the poet Joseph Brodsky and the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn are mentioned.
On February 23, unknown persons desecrated a memorial in the center of Kharkov, smearing paint on the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army and the plaques erected in honor of Russian cities.