Ukraine’s State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee has banned the import of nine more Russian books to Ukraine.
“The State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee refused to issue permits for the import to Ukraine from the territory of the aggressor state of eight books by Valery Sinelnikov (Tsentrpoligraf Publishing House, Moscow) and a book ‘A Merry Company’ from the series ‘One Hundred Points. Connect and Draw’ (Eksmo Publishing House, Moscow),” the committee’s press service reported on Thursday, February 22.
The order was issued on the basis of the decision by the expert council analyzing and assessing publishing products.
On February 13, 2018, the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee added 137 books to the list of books whose content is aimed at eliminating Ukraine’s independence, promoting violence, inciting interethnic, racial, religious hatred, committing terrorist acts, encroaching on human rights and freedoms.
On February 14, two more books were added to the list.
The authors whose books were placed on this list include Zakhar Prilepin, Dmitry Goblin Puchkov, Alexander Dugin, Sergei Dorenko, Eduard Limonov, Alexander Volkonsky, Pavel Gubarev, Sergei Glazyev, Anatoly Wasserman, Natalia Poklonskaya, and dozens of others.
