Crimea: librarian fined for banned books

At the end of 2014, the director of the Feodosia pulp and paper mill was fined for possession of extremist materials - 12 copies of a book recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation were found in the libraries of Feodosia.

In December 2014, the Feodosia City Court of the Republic Crimea found the director of the Feodosiya Central Library System guilty under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass storage for the purpose of distributing extremist materials) and sentenced to a fine of 2,000 rubles. Literature confiscated.

The offense was seen in the fact that in the Central city ​​library. A. Green and in the Central Children's Library of Feodosia in the open 12 copies of the book by Vasyl Marochko "Genocide of Ukrainians. Series: Holodomor 1932-1933. Holodomor" (2007), included in the Federal List extremist materials under No. 1154 (in the List the author is indicated as "Morochko").

According to the prosecutor's office of Feodosia, " the content of the brochure has anti-Russian orientation. The brochure uses language tools, which are aimed at inciting ethnic hatred on the grounds of belonging to a certain social group. Analyzed materials contain humiliating characteristics, negative emotional assessments in against the national group and its individuals, call for incitement of national hatred, as a result of which they can be used for changes in mass consciousness and serve as the basis for ultra-radical and nationalist attitudes .

The director of the TsBK explained to the court that this book was in Russian Federation (unlike Ukraine) is prohibited, she learned only in September 2014, and the libraries did not have time to remove this literature from open access. Nevertheless, the court agreed with the arguments of the prosecutor's office and found the woman guilty of an administrative offense.

Marochko's book, recognized as extremist by Meshchansky's decision District Court of Moscow on December 1, 2011, was among a large amount of literature seized in early 2011 during a search of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, which took place in within the framework of the investigation under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. Subsequently, the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.

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