The shaken employees of a Moscow library specializing in Ukrainian literature accused Russian investigators on Friday of planting banned extremist books on
their shelves to create a pretext to raid the library and detain their director.
Armed, masked police swooped on Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature on Wednesday, carting off about 200 books before detaining its 58-year-old director, Natalya Sharina, on suspicion of distributing anti-Russian literature.
Investigators confiscated “extremist” writings by Dmytro Korchinskiy, a banned Ukrainian nationalist author, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Kyiv, which accuses Moscow of waging war on its territory on behalf of pro-Russian separatists in a conflict that …read more
Source: Voice of America
