Closed library

Petersburg Library. Mayakovsky refused the public and cultural project "Open Library" later on the monthly meetings of the Dialogs discussion club on its site. This was reported by "Medusa" with reference to the head of the project Nikolai Solodnikov. He made his statement, preceding on Sunday a dialogue between cultural scientist Alexander Etkind and political scientist Ekaterina Shulman.

“This is due, let’s say, with the unwillingness and pressure of a certain kind of services and structures that have been trying to explain for a year and a half, including the library administration that the events that we are holding are extremely undesirable for the library and the city,” Solodnikov explained.

Whether the "dialogs" will be resumed on another site in St. Petersburg, the head of the Open Library was definitely difficult to say. At the same time, he did not rule out that the club would continue to work abroad.

Later, "Paper" said that before the discussion on June 26, operatives of the FSB department to protect the constitutional system and combat terrorism were held at the library named after Mayakovsky search with the seizure of documents and part of office equipment. The security forces demanded that the management of the Institutional information on the employment of Solodnikov, who works there as the deputy director for public relations. The issue of initiating a criminal case of theft of budget funds is being decided.

After a search of the licorice, he wrote a statement of dismissal of his own free will.

The Open Library project has existed since 2012. "Dialogs" in the library. Mayakovsky passed since 2014. At one time, the Partner of the Discussion Club was Medusa; This year, the broadcast of "dialogs" is conducted by Echo of Moscow.

In May 2015, the Open Library canceled the meeting with Mustafa Nayem - Ukrainian journalist and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. He had to discuss with Russian television journalist Vladimir Pozner. As a result, filmmaker Alexander Sokurov became a visa posner.

The organizers of the meeting explained such a decision “a huge number of threats” - “from illusory to very real ones,” - who came to the “both the project in general, and personally its organizers and participants”. From whom exactly the threats came, it was not specified.

On the eve of the meeting with the found, the Anti -Maidan movement opposed. On the organization’s website was published by Facsimil Donation sent by Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. The anti -Maidanists asked to "pay close attention" to the impending event.