1. Boris Marian primarily writes in Russian and is a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union, the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, and the Union of Writers of Russia.
12 Facts About Boris Marian
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Boris Tihonovici Marian was born in a family of Moldovan peasants on 27 September 1934 in Crasnogorca, then in the Moldavian ASSR of the Soviet Union's Ukrainian SSR.
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Boris Marian's father, Tihon Marian, was an anti-communist and was arrested several times by Soviet authorities.
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Boris Marian shared the document with several colleagues, one of whom reported it to the university authorities.
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Boris Marian later claimed that he had been helped by Andrei Lupan and Petrea Cruceniuc to get employed.
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Boris Marian later worked as a screenwriter at Moldova-Film and published several poetry collections.
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Boris Marian became involved in Moldova's independence movement from the Soviet Union and worked as a journalist at Moldova Suverana until 2009.
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Boris Marian is a critic of the pro-Romanian intellectual elite in Moldova.
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Boris Marian believes Moldova should remain an independent, multinational state.
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Boris Marian has clashed repeatedly with the leadership of the Writers' Union of Moldova, especially with Nicolae Dabija, whom he labeled a Russophobe, due to their pro-Romanian position, accusing them of hypocrisy.
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Boris Marian argues that the Tsarist annexation of Bessarabia in 1812 saved the Moldovan people from the Ottoman Empire.
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Since the 2014 Euromaidan and Ukrainian revolution, which he opposed, Boris Marian has not visited Ukraine.