From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Deputy Director of the Centralized Library System Valentina Slyusarchuk said that she threw out “anti-Russian literature” when she worked as director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow. She stated this at a court hearing in the case against the current head of the library, Natalya Sharina. Testimony of Slyusarchuk: I tried to prevent anti-Russian literature glorifying the OUN-UPA. I threw it away.

On the night of November 23, a poster with a character from the Harry Potter series of books, the main villain Voldemort, appeared on a memorial plaque to Admiral Alexander Kolchak in St. Petersburg. Representatives of the Russian Socialist Movement speak about this * Recognized by the Russian authorities as a foreign agent. (RSD) told Radio Baltika.

Excerpt from John Berger's essay "Why Look at Animals?" The fifth issue of the Rhino magazine is dedicated to animals. Gorky publishes an excerpt from the text of the English critic and writer John Berger, opening the new issue. Animals are born, they have consciousness and they are mortal. In all this they resemble a person. But they differ from him in their superficial anatomy (less than deep), their habits, time and physical abilities. Animals are both similar and dissimilar to humans.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Holy See and the European Space Agency have agreed to digitize documents from the Vatican library, writes the Catholic Herald newspaper. This will use the Flexible Image Transmission System (FITS), developed jointly with NASA in the 1970s. The contract is valid for five years. The publication notes that the age of some manuscripts reaches 1800 years. In total, the Vatican library contains several tens of thousands of documents.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The manuscript of a previously unknown poem by Anne Frank, a girl who died in a Nazi camp, has been put up for auction in the Netherlands, writes the Daily Mail. Twelve-year-old Frank wrote an eight-line poem in 1942 and dedicated it to her friend, who kept the manuscript until her death. After this, the woman’s older sister decided to put the page with the poem up for sale. The preliminary cost of the lot was 30-50 thousand euros.

Historian Peter Ryabov about his library and reader biography Why rewrite four volumes of Plato by hand, how to place eight thousand books at home and what romance all students read: Peter Ryabov, a historian and anarchist, talks about his book collection and reader biography. About obsession with books I learned to read, as I recall, at the age of five, already in the second grade I read around the clock and immediately planted my vision.

Guide to the new issue of Rhino magazine The fifth issue of the Rhino magazine has been published, dedicated to animals, or more precisely, their images in the imagination and language of man. At the request of Gorky, the editors of Rhino prepared a short guide to the new issue. John Berger. Why look at animals?

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The sixth festival of intellectual literature, organized by the Kazan Center for Contemporary Culture “Smena”, will be held on December 10 and 11. The basis of the festival will be a book fair, at which Russian book publishing houses will present rare scientific, popular science and fiction literature.