Law enforcement officers carried out an inspection at the St Petersburg bookshop “Podpisnye Izdaniya,” reports “Mash na Moyke.” According to the channel, several dozen books “with signs of so-called LGBT ideology” were seized from the shop.
The shop confirmed to “Ostorozhno Media” that law enforcement took away books mentioning LGBT.
The Telegram channel “Krovavaya Barynya,” without citing a source, writes that law enforcement had questions about several books published by Ad Marginem. The publishing house’s editor-in-chief, Mikhail Kotomin, said he does not know exactly which books are being referred to:
“Our books often appear in various insane lists that wander, like the Flying Dutchman, between different organisations. Often, some very peculiar titles come up, like Walter Benjamin’s ‘One Way Street’ or Michel Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish.’ Which specific books from our range have raised suspicions this time, I do not know.”
“Mash na Moyke” clarified that law enforcement came to inspect the shop following a tip-off.
14:30 After the inspection, prosecutors gave “Podpisnye Izdaniya” a list of 48 books that must be removed from the shop’s shelves, writes “Rotonda.”
According to shop staff, this list included six books about feminism. Among them, for example, is a collection of essays by the American writer Susan Sontag titled “On Women” and the essay collection “7 Texts on Feminism. Disarming Gender,” which includes contributions from, among others, activist Darya Serenko.
Prosecutors are also demanding the removal from shelves of works by journalists Valery Panyushkin and Sergey Pakhomenko, who have been labelled “foreign agents” in Russia, as well as the novel “Doctor Garin” by Vladimir Sorokin.
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