Russian Book Union required “drug propaganda” labels on books by Ryu Murakami, Noam Chomsky, and a Beatles biography

The Russian Book Union required “drug propaganda” labels on books by Ryu Murakami, Noam Chomsky, and a Beatles biography

The Russian Book Union has updated its list of books “containing mentions of narcotic substances and therefore subject to special labeling,” TASS reports.

The list includes Oleg Roy’s novels “The Threshold” and “The Junk Dealer,” Bernard Werber’s “The Voice of the Earth,” Ryu Murakami’s “Karaoke,” and Noam Chomsky’s book “Who Rules the World?”

The updated list also includes four books from the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house: Olga Chernenkova’s “Anna Akhmatova. Nikolai Gumilev: A Common Prayer,” Vyacheslav Bondarenko’s “The Beatles. Angels and Demons,” Vladimir Lakshin’s “Leo Tolstoy. Anton Chekhov,” and Armen Gasparyan’s “The Iron March Against Ignorance.”

On Molodaya Gvardiya’s website, the books are already marked with a note saying that illegal drug use harms health and that drug trafficking is prohibited.

🔵Earlier, a list of books subject to labeling appeared on the Russian Book Union’s website; it included about a thousand works. The union said the list would be “updated regularly.”

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