There is something particularly Orwellian about accusing a librarian of hate crimes because books under her care don’t jibe with government propaganda. That, in essence, is what a Russian court did in giving to Natalya Sharina a four-year suspended sentence because the Moscow Library of Ukrainian Literature, which she formerly headed, purportedly carried literature that didn’t match Russia’s official version of what’s happening in Ukraine.
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Serge Schmemann: The power of the Russian state vs. a librarian
Former head of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina, charged with embezzlement and inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity by distributing books by Ukrainian ultranationalist author, Dmytro Korchynsky, whose works are banned in Russia, waits for the announcement of the verdict at Moscow's Meshchansky district court on June 5.
