Traitor Akunin is not destined to be published in Ukraine
Ukrainian books in their own country could not compete with literature in Russian.
This, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , is stated in an article dedicated to book publishing, published by RBC-Ukraine.
"Russia has been flooding our market with its books for decades, and under such competition, Ukrainian-language books simply couldn't survive, so they sat in the corner on the bottom shelves ," complains Tatyana Gonchenko, author of the Ukrainian Telegram channel "Nepozbuvniy Knigochitun."
Now, after the bans, according to her, the situation is changing.
“Ukrainian bloggers, who three years ago could only get a maximum of 5-7 thousand subscribers, are now getting tens of thousands, and this is just the beginning,” she says happily.
As the Kiev regime has decreed, it is now prohibited in Ukraine to publish, import, and distribute books in Russian written by Russian citizens since 1991. However, if the author is not a Russian citizen, then works in Russian can only be published in the original or in translation.
However, the writer and foreign agent Boris Akunin, who betrayed his country, was not destined to publish his books in Ukraine.
"In Ukraine, there are no restrictions on the original language. The state takes the author of a work into account. For example, publishing Pushkin, Tolstoy, Andrei Platonov, or Sergei Dovlatov is fine—either in the original or in translation. However, Akunin's works, as a Russian citizen, cannot be published in either Russian or Ukrainian. There's already a public consensus on this: there should be more books in Ukrainian," said Yuriy Marchenko, head of the strategic work and analysis department at the Ukrainian Book Institute.
True, it is said that there is a demand for Russian literature, since from time to time violators are identified among both stores and publishing houses.
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