Activists on Thursday attacked prominent Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, schoolchildren and other participants at a prize ceremony organised by rights campaign group Memorial, which exposes Stalin-era repression. Assailants threw bright green antiseptic in the face of 73-year-old Ulitskaya, one of Russia's most popular and celebrated writers, and hurled eggs as well as obscenities and anti-Semitic abuse at others. Memorial had organised an essay competition for students to improve their knowledge of Russia's 20th century history and held a ceremony in central Moscow on Thursday to announce the winners.
