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Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature detained
Natalya Sharina, director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, was detained in Moscow. The Interfax agency reported this on the evening of October 28, citing an unnamed source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency's interlocutor, Sharina was detained for questioning. There was no official confirmation of this information at the time of writing.
reports On the morning of October 28, a search was carried out in Sharina’s apartment. Searches were also carried out in the library building and the house of the head of the Association of Ukrainians of Russia Valery Semenenko. After the search, the latter talked with the investigator for several hours. According to him, most of the questions concerned the Library of Ukrainian Literature.
According to him , during a search in the library, computers, documents, and some books were seized.
The Ukrainian agency UNIAN stated that during searches in the library, police and riot police officers “planted literature.” The publication reported this with reference to an unnamed library employee.
some reported According to , law enforcement officials were interested in the information that the library stores copies of “The Hour of Ruhu,” where historical facts are allegedly distorted in a “Russophobic” way.
REN-TVV television channel at the same time, according to the television channel (the source of information is not specified), the searches are taking place as part of an investigation into the distribution of books of “anti-Russian and anti-Russian orientation”, which was opened against the library back in December 2010 and closed in 2011.