Halya Coynash: Russian expert in Ukrainian library director case finds ‘extremism’ in children’s magazine
Head of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina waits for her judgment in the Tagansky court in Moscow, on October 30, 2015 after been suspected of inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity by distributing books.
The Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow was, it transpires, a hotbed of 'extremism'. That's according to Yevgeny Tarasov who was commissioned to carry out a 'psycholinguistic' assessment of books from the library as part of the criminal proceedings against Natalya Sharina, director of the library and now a recognized political prisoner. Tarasov was asked to investigate 24 publications from the library and found 'extremism' in 22 of them, including the children's journal 'Barvinok'.
