Ekaterina Genieva died

Ekaterina Genieva, head of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature since 1993, died in Israel at the age of 70. Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya told Meduza about this. Genieva had cancer, she was treated in Israel.

Ekaterina Genieva has worked at Inostranka since 1972. In 1989, she took the place of first deputy director, and in 1993 - general director. Since 1997, she has headed the Russian Soros Foundation. Recently, she has faced opposition from the state, which, for example, tried to close the American Center at the library.