Rospechat tries to fight nationalist literature at a book fair

In connection with the presence of nationalist literature at the Books of Russia exhibition-fair, the head of Rospechat, Mikhail Seslavinsky, instructed the fair administration to give the organizers of the stand of the Russkaya Pravda publishing group and the Algoritm publishing house a warning about the possibility of removing the stand from the exhibition area if literature is placed on it , "inciting national and religious strife" .

At the same time, M. Seslavinsky noted that "the powers of the agency without appropriate decisions of judicial and law enforcement agencies do not allow to carry out the necessary legal expertise and take any kind of prohibitive measures" .

Sources

• Rospechat will remove xenophobic literature from the exhibition-fair "Books of Russia" // Anti-Semitism. No. 2006. March 24.