Hi, After a considerable amount of deliberation I regret to say I have to resign from this working group. I think the work of the Cyrillic Generation Panel is important and may have serious effect on Cyrillic TLDs. As such, it is very important that the work is done under the highest standards of policymaking professionalism in a truly bottom-up multistakeholder process. Unfortunately, this is not what's currently happening. This rant isn't personal at all. I fully respect Yuri, and wish him all the best both personally and professionally. However, I do not believe this group can proceed with leadership being just assigned top-down, with no input from the group. I noted it on almost every occasion in the last year, but with the same practice continuing, and having no further recourse, I unfortunately have no choice but to stop my participation. Please kindly delete my name from the list of members. I will be very happy to rejoin when and if the group decides to use bottom-up processes such as election of leadership. I owed the group a draft letter to linguists proposed by Nicholas Ostler which I completed today - please see it in the attachment. All the best, Vladimir Shadrunov