The Ukrainian State Fiscal Service (GFS) has unveiled a list of 38 books which may not be imported into the country. The list contains titles of books by Russian authors, mainly the 2014 and 2015 editions.
“To our citizens, as well as external economic agents whose activity involves moving book publications across the Ukrainian customs border, we hereby present a list of books whose import to Ukraine is banned in order to prevent the use by Ukrainian citizens of the methods of information warfare, disinformation, spread of the ideology of misanthropy, fascism, xenophobia and separatism, and to stop encroachments on the territorial integrity and the political system as defined by the Ukrainian Constitution,” the GFS said on its website.
Titles on the list of banned literature include several books authored by Maxim Kalashnikov and Sergei Buntovsky (‘Putin’s code,’ ‘An independent Ukraine: the collapse of the project,’ ‘Forward into the USSR-2,’ ‘The genocide of the Russian nation,’ ‘The tsunami of the 2010s,’ ‘Superman speaks Russian’); ‘Kyiv kaput’ by Eduard Limonov; ‘Ukraine. My war. A geopolitical diary’ and ‘Russia’s European revenge’ by Alexander Dugin; ‘The Ukrainian front. Red stars over Maidan’ and ‘The 2010 war. The Ukrainian front’ by Fyodor Berezin; ‘Ukraine. Chaos and revolution: the dollar’s weapon’ and ‘Russia. Crimea. History’ by Nikolai Starikov, among others.
