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Про мо­раль­ні нор­ми про­с­тих ук­ра­їн­сь­ких за­ро­біт­чан в Пор­ту­га­лії зна­ють дав­но. Від­не­дав­на, в Пор­ту­га­лії та­кож зна­ють і про мо­раль­ні нор­ми так зва­них ук­ра­їн­сь­ких на­у­ков­ців. На­їв­ний пор­ту­галь­сь­кий про­фе­сор апелює до мі­ніс­т­ра ос­ві­ти про­ФФе­со­ра Табач­ни­ка...

To the Min­is­ter of Sci­ence and Ed­u­ca­tion of Ukraine
Prof. D. V. Tabach­nik.

Dear Prof. Tabach­nik,

On 9 June 2010, I sent an e-mail to the Pres­i­dent of Kharkov V. N. Karazin Na­tional Uni­ver­sity on a rather ur­gent mat­ter. Up to now, I did not re­ceive any re­ac­tion.

Mean­while, time is press­ing since the con­fer­ence, men­tioned in that let­ter, opens soon, so the Ukrain­ian co-au­thor of our joint talk, Dr. Oleg Za­slavskii, should leave Kharkov for Moscow on 26 June. For this rea­son, I ask you to in­trude im­me­di­ately. Be­low I put a copy of my let­ter to Prof. Bakirov. It is self-ex­plana­tory.

I only want to add that I know well from Oleg that your coun­try de­clares very loudly that it in­tends to fol­low Eu­ro­pean stan­dards. There­fore, I be­lieve that you want to take care of the rep­u­ta­tion of one of your best uni­ver­si­ties and your own or­ga­ni­za­tion. If so, I hope very much that the cur­rent prob­lems can be solved in the sense of co­op­er­a­tion and good will.

А ось, влас­не, про що йде мо­ва:

To Pres­i­dent of Kharkov V. N. Karazin Na­tional Uni­ver­sity
Prof. V. S Bakirov

Dear Prof. Bakirov,

I have been col­lab­o­rat­ing fruit­fully with a sci­en­tist of your uni­ver­sity Oleg Za­slavskii for more than 4 years. Now, Oleg is go­ing to re­port some our re­sults on a Grav­i­ta­tional con­fer­ence in Moscow. I was very sur­prised to hear that the Chief of your In­ter­na­tional De­part­ment Mr. Bolotny tries this talk to be sub­jected to strong cen­sor­ship in the form of so-called "act of ex­per­tise". He de­clared that with­out this, Za­slavskii will not be al­lowed to make a sci­en­tific trip to this con­fer­ence.

Ac­tu­ally, eval­u­a­tion by "ex­perts" whether gov­ern­ment se­crets can be con­tained here is to­tally and ab­solutely an ab­surd. 1) This is clear al­ready from the ti­tle: "En­tropy of qua­si­black holes". 2) These re­sults are al­ready pub­lished any­way in Phys­i­cal Re­view D. 3) Se­crets of and from which coun­try do you in­tend to de­fended against? Ukraine from Rus­sia? Ukraine from Por­tu­gal? But I al­ready know my own re­sults of our joint work. In ad­di­tion, I know that Ukraine pre­tends to be a de­mo­c­ra­tic coun­try but this is in­con­sis­tent with im­ple­ment­ing such type of cen­sor­ship.

Oleg told me a sim­i­lar out­ra­geous story that al­ready hap­pened in your uni­ver­sity. An as­tronomer from Ger­many, Zigfried Frank de­liv­ered a talk on the sem­i­nar of the In­sti­tute of As­tron­omy in April 2009. And, as Oleg told me, Mr. Bolotny forced them to put in or­der "the act of ex­per­tise". To de­fend Ger­man se­crets from Ukraini­ans, I guess? This is very funny to say the least. I did not ex­pect such a de­gree of ab­sur­dity in one of lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties of mod­ern Ukraine.

Re­turn­ing to my case, I want to em­pha­size that the ab­surd re­quire­ments of your Chief of the In­ter­na­tional De­part­ment touch not only Oleg but also me per­son­ally and my In­sti­tute since they con­cern the joint re­sults ob­tained dur­ing Oleg's vis­its by our own in­vi­ta­tion. And, I protest strongly against at­tempts of your uni­ver­sity to in­tro­duce cen­sor­ship and de­cide whether or not my re­sults will be al­lowed to be de­liv­ered on a con­fer­ence or some­where else. To sum­ma­rize, it is clear that the afore­men­tioned de­part­ment and his chief act strongly against in­ter­na­tional col­lab­o­ra­tion.

I com­pletely sup­port Oleg's in­ten­tion not to fill the ab­surd "act of ex­per­tise" which is ac­tu­ally an ob­vi­ous man­i­fes­ta­tion of cen­sor­ship.

More­over, if I learn that due to ef­forts of Mr. Bolotny and with your con­nivance, Oleg will not be al­lowed to de­liver our re­sults on the con­fer­ence in Moscow, this shame­ful story, with all de­tails and names, will re­ceive fur­ther pub­lic­ity.

Є всі під­ста­ви вва­жа­ти, що за цю бучу про­фе­сор Олег За­слав­сь­кий не­за­ба­ром бу­де зві­ль­не­ний на ра­дість йо­го ко­легам, які не роз­го­ло­шу­ють де­ржав­ні та­єм­ни­ці під час між­на­род­них ко­ла­бо­ра­цій, бо не бе­руть у них участь. Та­ким чи­ном, на­реш­ті, ря­ди ук­ра­їн­сь­ких на­у­ков­ців бу­де очи­щ­е­но від па­рі­їв, які кро­ку­ють не в ногу. Ук­ра­їн­сь­кій на­у­ці та­кі не по­тріб­ні! І то прав­да: рап­том тре­ба бу­де, на­при­клад, за­без­пе­чи­ти яв­ку сту­ден­тів на ви­бо­ри, а во­ни зга­да­ють, що це по­ру­шен­ня за­ко­ну... Втім, є і про­с­ті­ше по­яс­нен­ня: еле­мен­тар­на за­зд­рість.

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