The State Duma proposed limiting access to books by “foreign agents”
A bill has been introduced to the Russian State Duma to restrict access to books by so-called foreign agents in libraries. This was announced by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Yampolskaya.
The bill proposes to amend the law “On Librarianship”. According to the document, the Russian Ministry of Culture will approve the rules for placing books in libraries that were written by “foreign agents” or people included in the list of terrorists and extremists. The department will also compile a list of such books and inform libraries about this.
The explanatory note states that at the moment there are books by “foreign agents” in libraries. “Thus, authors whose activities are directed against the security of the Russian Federation are being promoted and positioned,” the document says.
The bill also proposes to limit access to a number of books in libraries located in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The procedure for access to the collections of these libraries should be determined by the Ministry of Culture.
According to the authors of the document, the holdings of these libraries “over the years of their presence as part of Ukraine were stocked with Ukrainian propaganda literature (of a clearly anti-Russian nature and directed against Russian socio-political leaders) and books glorifying nationalists and traitors.”
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