Vladimir Medinsky accepted Arkady Inin into the Russian Writers' Union

On February 2, a solemn ceremony of awarding new membership cards was held in the renovated building of the headquarters of the Writers' Union of Russia (SPR). They were awarded to screenwriter Viktor Dotsenko, writer Sergey Shargunov, publicist Egor Kholmogorov and screenwriter Arkady Inin.

The membership cards were presented by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, 1st Secretary of the Russian Federation Council. He noted that the criteria for admission to the Union have become stricter today.

"Today we are issuing new type tickets to members of the Writers' Union of Russia, members of the Writers' Union of the USSR, and we are also accepting new members. At the expanded secretariat, we have adopted new criteria, much stricter, for admission to the Writers' Union. They will be published soon. But each of those who receive new-style tickets today meets these criteria by a margin of two, and some by three orders of magnitude," Medinsky said.

Medinsky noted that the consolidation of creative associations of writers into a single union is currently underway. According to him, the process proceeds without revolutions by the method of evolution. Handing over the tickets, he recalled that in the 1920s, the creative intelligentsia was united by the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). In the wake of the revolutionary upsurge, 7 thousand people signed up for it.

"Not all of them were known as Mayakovsky. And Bulgakov was not accepted into the RAPP at all. When this reached the country's leadership, Stalin told RAPP and all other writers' organizations to be dissolved. He ordered the return of Maxim Gorky and Alexei Tolstoy to the country and the creation of a unified Union of Soviet writers. We will do without dissolving," Medinsky said.

Through consolidation and certification, he concluded, the association will come to the conclusion that membership in the SPR will be extremely prestigious, in demand and, perhaps, coveted.

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In December, the XVIII Congress of the SPR was held, at which members of the organization's board discussed new assets, the consolidation of regional offices, the return of front-line prose and the need to certify writers. Separately, at the congress, plans were announced to restore the house of creativity in the Crimean Koktebel.

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