The Power of the Russian State vs. a Librarian
There is something particularly Orwellian about accusing a librarian of hate crimes because books under her care don’t jibe with government propaganda. That, in essence, is what a Russian court did in giving to Natalia Sharina a four-year suspended sentence because the Moscow Library of Ukrainian Literature, which she formerly headed, purportedly carried literature that didn’t match Russia’s official version of what’s happening in #Ukraine.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/the-power-of-the-russian-state-vs-a-librarian.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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