Postface

Writing also on behalf of her sister, Anna Olehivna Muzychuk clarified why they did not sign the open letter issued by the Lviv Regional Chess Federation — thus partially correcting what its Deputy President Nazar Bogdanovich Firman stated. They apparently did not like the absence of dialectical debate as to the letter’s actual effects and its impact, which is to say that “Either you sign this letter or...” is not a kind way of inclusiveness. Indeed, most of Muzychuk’s clarifications, particularly on war matters, sound quite redundant as her (i.e., their) identity, belonging and loyalty cannot be seriously doubted by anyone, except maybe for warmongers in need of enemies. Not unsurprisingly, the only point on which they were not sure concerned the moral right to exclude or not to exclude all those people who, regardless of their nationality, had opposed war. And indeed, Muzychuk’s perplexity was more than legitimate, if nothing else, because she herself, about a month ago or so, appealed directly to Russian and Belarusian people to stand against war.