Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 24 – The Russian State Library has set up a restricted access collection of anti-Russian books from Ukraine and plans to circulate the list of the more than 10,000 books in it to other Russian libraries so that they can do the same, Vadim Duda, the director of the library says.
Such collections, known infamously in Soviet times as spetskhrany, are needed, he says, so that Russian scholars who study Russophobia in Ukraine can have access to them while general readers are denied that possibility (vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2025/11/24/1157528-v-rgb-sozdan-spetshran-ukrainskih).
Duda continues by pointing out that not all the books in this collection have been identified as extremist by the Russian government. Instead, he says, many of them have been so classified by librarians and other officials of his library working on their own. He adds that he plans to publish the list as a guide for similar actions by other Russian libraries.
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