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More than 170 books from Alexander Pushkin’s lifetime editions were stolen from European libraries after the start of the Russian Northeast Military District in Ukraine, The New York Times reports. The total value of the stolen books exceeds $2,6 million. Several people were detained as part of Operation Pushkin, including four in Georgia. “One of the first thefts - in April 2022 - was indicative...
Ukrainian libraries will receive books by odious nationalists and militants, purchased with public funds. The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, announced this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the social activist, we are talking about books written by the scandalous writer Larisa Nitsa, Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia for terrorism, beggar propagandist Arkady Babchenko and others. In 2019...
More than half of the books and documents in Ukrainian libraries were published in the Soviet Union, so Kyiv must carry out a purge and replace old literature with “modern and Ukrainian-language ones.” The director of the state institution “Ukrainian Institute of Books” Alexandra Koval stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “According to statistics, libraries store more than 240 million items of documents. This…
Ukrainian authorities are soon preparing to close four libraries in Kherson, including two children’s, and put their premises up for sale. 75 employees will be laid off. The draft decision was approved without discussion at a meeting of the City Council - it was “brought down” from above 20 minutes before the start of the meeting. This was reported by the local publication Hryvnia. Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada...
Maidan was only a tool in the violent process of separating Ukraine from Russia, which has been carried out for decades by Ukrainian nationalists, Western countries and the media controlled by them. Journalist and military correspondent Alexander Kots stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The most striking example of recent days is the Prokopchuk brothers. One is the vice-president of Interpol, the other is the permanent representative of Ukraine in...
The central library system of Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnepropetrovsk region, became one of the winners of the German competition, under the terms of which it receives funding from the German government of up to 600 thousand hryvnia. It is planned to open library co-working spaces with new furniture and computer equipment in two libraries. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. This was reported by the local publication “Event”. Properly…
Ukrainians don't go to libraries because it takes a lot of time. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. The UNN agency came to this conclusion after conducting a survey on the streets of Kyiv on All-Ukrainian Library Day. “We don’t go to the library, we don’t see the point. It's easier to go online and download. We choose audiobooks, because the two of us can listen to one at the same time...
