The website of the Labyrinth bookstore marked Pushkin, Tolstoy and Marshak as “foreign agents”
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On the website of the Russian bookstore “Labyrinth”, the cards of Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Samuil Marshak and other deceased writers were labeled as “foreign agents”. Attention was drawn to this by the Russian service of the BBC and “Ostrozhno, novosti”.
The representative of the store contacted by “Ostrozhno, novosti” offered to update the website page. After that, the notes about the foreign agency disappeared. “BBC” journalists explained the appearance of markings as a technical failure.
In December 2022, the law on “LGBT propaganda” and a new version of the law on foreign agents entered into force. After that, book stores began to mark books with non-agency markings (including those authors who do not have such a status), as well as remove from sale works that mention homosexual relations.
“Labyrinth” did this even before the amendments came into force. The store suspended the sale of some of the books, saying that it would examine them “for the presence of prohibited information.”
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