Russian libraries may have to remove every seventh book because of the law on “undesirable organizations” and “foreign agents”

Russian libraries may have to remove every seventh book because of the law on “undesirable organizations” and “foreign agents”According to a report by the Ministry of Digital Development, the unjustified application of the laws on “foreign agents” and “undesirable organizations” could lead to the removal of up to 15% of the holdings of public and research libraries, RBC writes.

The restrictions could affect works by authors designated as foreign agents and books published with the support of undesirable organizations. This could include the removal of a large amount of Russian classical and academic literature, said Eksmo-AST president Oleg Novikov.

💜Earlier, Verstka wrote that libraries had already begun removing from open access books published with the participation of “foreign agents.” Some of those books belong to classical, children’s, and educational literature.

Among them were, for example, a collection of Turgenev’s works with an introduction by Dmitry Bykov and the book “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” with a foreword by Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

As Verstka found, collections by Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Bunin, and Boris Pasternak were added to the “Destructive Lists” section on the National Book Platform, in which Alexander Arkhangelsky was the author of the introductory text or the compiler, as well as literature textbooks for schoolchildren compiled by him.

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