Starting March 1, publishers and booksellers in Russia are required to label books that contain references to narcotic substances. This is just one of many…
More and more restrictions
Reasons for the pressure
Publishers’ response to the bans
The impact of bans on bookstores
The return of samizdat
As Putin tightens the screws on his authoritarian grip on Russian society, books are among the latest victims.
Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying…
A new censorship law restricts what Russians were ever allowed to have sung, written, or published.
In Russland werden kritische Titel verboten, sogenannte Z-Autoren besingen die Ukraine-Invasion – und erlauben sich dabei…
As the Kremlin increasingly restricts the flow of ideas, those nostalgic for the USSR are calling for the reinstatement of the…
В апреле 2026 года электронные библиотеки «Литрес» и «KION Строки», а также маркетплейс Ozon начали ставить предупреждения об…
