The director of a scientific library was fined in Yekaterinburg

July 4, 2011 Magistrate's Court section N3 of the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg found guilty under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (storage for the purpose of mass distribution extremist materials) director Zonal Scientific Library of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Ural Federal University them. the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin" Galina Kudryashova.

The director was sentenced to a fine, and extremist literature was confiscated.

It was about the book by A. Okorokov "Fascism and Russian emigration" and the article "Chechen republic" from the "Big Encyclopedia" publishing house "Terra". Both editions included in the federal list extremist literature.

Recall that libraries face sanctions from prosecutors throughout country for the storage of materials recognized extremist. Meanwhile, they are only follow the law "On librarianship", which is located contrary to the Federal Law "On countering extremist activities."

Lately we have seen more and more cases when the prosecutor's office is not just demand to remove books from the fund, but also engage directors in administrative responsibility for storage and spread of extremist materials.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office of Yekaterinburg revealed extremist literature in the library of the Ural Federal University // Website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 2011. July 7.