Paustovsky and Bulgakov may be recognized as anti-Ukrainian elements
According to the government bill “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding Restricting Access to the Ukrainian Market for Foreign Printed Products with Anti-Ukrainian Content,” Russian classics may be banned in Ukraine, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes in an article devoted to the recent statement of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kirilenko .
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“With particular pleasure, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, who initiated the creation of “blacklists” of Russian artists and banned Russian films, said that “the licensing principle will apply only to books originating from Russia; all other countries can freely import, in accordance with current legislation.” , – notes the publication. – In other words, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister admitted that he intends to apply discriminatory principles in relation to the Russian language and Russian literature. The law created by Kirilenko proposes to give the State Committee for Teleradio the right to decide which printed products from Russia will be allowed on the Ukrainian market.
It will be assessed for “anti-Ukrainianness” by an expert council, without whose permission it will be possible to import no more than ten books into the territory of Ukraine. Violation is subject to a fine and subsequent withdrawal of printed products from circulation. Although the evaluation criteria are not described in the law - they will have to be formulated by an expert council, it can already be assumed that, for example, the books of Mikhail Bulgakov and Konstantin Paustovsky, who did not hide their contempt for the figures of Ukrainian nationalism of the early last century, can be recognized as “anti-Ukrainian”. heroes of today's Ukraine."
At the same time, the newspaper points out that the ban on literature from Russia is not only ideological, but also economic in nature, since “up until the announcement of the actual embargo on Russian literature, Ukrainian literature was and remains uncompetitive and unprofitable.”
“So, according to observers, up to 80% of books sold at the country’s largest book market, Petrovka (there are no book hypermarkets in Ukraine), are brought from Russia. Moreover, recently, due to the existing bans, they enter the country like Russian gas - “in reverse,” that is, from European countries. In addition, literature in Russian is published by many publishing houses literally underground and for the most part is “counterfeit,” reports RG.
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