A union of leading Russian publishers and libraries has created an advisory body that would evaluate books for their compliance with the country’s increasingly repressive legislation, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday.
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Georgian-Russian journalist Yekaterina Kotrikadze talked to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about the risks facing Georgians if a government bill to curb "foreign influence" is passed. She would know better than most: She was declared a "foreign agent" in Russia and forced to flee.
The question of post-colonialism in Russia is the great underlying theme imposed by the Russian war in Ukraine. Behind the claims of the 'Russian world' are the aspirations of the many peoples who for centuries have been subjected to the imperial domination of different ideologies, from the Tsarist to the Soviet, and today by the Kirill-Putin Eurasian vision, which by taking on Ukraine has in fact uncovered the Pandora's box of all Russian history.