Context: Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Union of Russian Writers, Editor-in-Chief of 'Vertical. XXI century', laureate of international and all-Russian literary awards, (Nizhny Novgorod). Signed an open letter of cultural figures expressing 'support for the decision of the President of Russia to launch a military operation to denazify Ukraine and protect the republics of Donbass'.