Library director fined in Sverdlovsk region

On May 26, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region announced that the Magistrate's Court of the Bogdanovichi District had sentenced the director of the library of the Central Library System of the city of Bogdanovich to a fine under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (dissemination of extremist materials).

The city prosecutor's office of Bogdanovich established that the library has a book by G. Picker "Hitler's Table Talk", recognized as extremist by the decision of the Pallasovsky District Court of the Volgograd Region in 2010 and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials , and initiated a lawsuit against the director of the library N. Kocheshkova. The court ruled to fine Kocheshkova 2,000 rubles and confiscate the book from the library.

The prosecutor's office also made a submission addressed to the head of the Department of Culture, Youth Policy and Information of the Bogdanovich urban district with a demand to eliminate the causes and conditions of violations of the law on countering extremism and to resolve the issue of disciplinary liability of guilty officials.

Recall that the anti-extremist legislation is in conflict with the law "On librarianship." See here for more details .

Sources

• At the request of the prosecutor's office, a decision was made to confiscate a book of an extremist nature // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. 2011. May 26.