[an open letter sent to lwn @ lwn.net]
Dear LWN.net Team,
I want to ask You to stop cooperating with Alexander Prokoudine (aka 'prokoudine'), an author & editor of the LibreArts.org (ex' LibreGraphicsWorld.org) Magazine.
Alexander Prokoudine is a Russian citizen who openly denied and joked about Russia's Annexation of Crimea (territory of Ukraine) since February 20, 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation) on the Russian Linux User Group site (aka LOR, rus. "ЛОР").
Here are links to such comments posted by Alexander Prokoudine (aka 'AP' on LOR: https://www.linux.org.ru/people/AP/profile):
1) https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/11735911?cid=11737609
> “It is necessary to return the Crimea to Schwarzenegger :)”
2) https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/11861330?cid=11862434
> “Three Western agencies have already found that the Crimeans themselves do not want to. One of these agencies really wanted the result of the study was not at all like that, but it did not work out. It may be enough to harsh people like cards back and forth? They themselves decided that they wanted to go to Mordor - let them live here.”
Dear LWN.net, please, stop sending U.S. Dollars to Russia for providing financial support for Russian who support or deny Russia's aggression and war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
About ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
About International sanctions against Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Sincerely,
— app4soft (twitter.com/app4soft), July 25th, 2023, Ukraine.
And here is a thread on Twitter: twitter.com/app4soft/status/1500394792290766849
(read it without login on Nitter: nitter.net/app4soft/status/1500394792290766849)
And a screenshot of AP's comment, removed from now locked topic: www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/16808839/