Libraries in Russia have started removing from shelves books that had any involvement from “foreign agents”...

Libraries in Russia have started removing from shelves books that had any involvement from “foreign agents,” even if it is about classics, school textbooks, or children’s fairy tales.

As Verstka writes, the restrictions affect not only books by authors designated as “foreign agents,” but also any editions where they were editors, translators, compilers, or authors of forewords.

As a result, the following are being sent to closed stacks:

➖ collections of Pushkin, Bunin, and Pasternak

➖ works by Turgenev

➖ school literature textbooks

➖ children’s books and fairy tales

Library staff say the instructions come from above, and the lists are published in special sections marked “destructive.”

If an author has also been designated an “extremist,” the books may not simply be removed from catalogs, but destroyed.

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