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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the desire of Western countries to ban Yuri Gagarin or Fyodor Dostoevsky a madness that has swept the whole world. Vucic is sure that the hysteria directed against Russia led to this, TASS reports.
The whole world seems to have gone crazy, the president said. Who can believe that Yuri Gagarin is being expelled from the ''cosmonaut fund of the world,'' Vucic asks. After all, this is the man who was the first to conquer the space, the Serbian president recalled.
There are people who want Dostoevsky's books to be banned from school programs, just because he is a Russian writer. But which of the classics of world literature is ''greater and more important than Dostoevsky,'' Alexander Vucic asked.
Earlier, the American Space Foundation, which holds the "Yuri's Night" auctions in honor of Yuri Gagarin, decided to take down the cosmonaut's name from the event's title.
The decision to cancel lectures on Dostoevsky by the famous researcher of his work Paolo Nori at the University of Milan faced a lot of critisism. The course was later returned to the program. However, the scientist was offered to include the names of Ukrainian authors to his lectures.
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