Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
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Russia deliberately sets libraries on fire in Ukraine. Putin wants to destroy not only the country, but also its culture.
Russian strikes destroy a third of the annual circulation of Ukrainian books
Eight million books were destroyed in a Russian drone strike on a warehouse at the Ranok publishing house in Kharkiv. Children's books, textbooks, fiction and almost the entire available circulation of one of the major Ukrainian publishers were destroyed. This is just one of a series of strikes that have threatened book publishing in Ukraine in recent months.
Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks On a Saturday morning in August, Viktor Kruglov, the co-founder and chief executive of the publisher Ranok, was at his headquarters in Kharkiv – the eastern Ukrainian city that, along with Kyiv, is the…
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