Ukrainian publishers have reacted angrily to their government’s ban on importing books from Russia, claiming it will create a black market and damage the domestic industry.
The ban, passed by Ukraine’s parliament, is the latest front in the battle between Kiev and Moscow that has been running since Russia annexed Crimea and pro-Russian forces seized power in parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014. Books from Russia account for up to 60% of all titles sold in Ukraine and are estimated to make up 100,000 sales a year. [Read more]. |
- Danuta Kean, Ukraine publishers speak out against ban on Russian books, The Guardian, February 14, 2017
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”
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