Russian investigators said on Thursday they had detained the director of a Moscow library specialising in Ukrainian literature and opened a criminal case to establish whether she was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred.
The arrest of 58-year-old Natalya Sharina followed a search of the library which investigators said had uncovered printed material containing “anti-Russian propaganda” and extremist writings by Dmytro Korchinskiy, a Ukrainian nationalist author.
The incident is likely to worsen already poor relations between Russia and Ukraine, which are languishing at a post-Soviet low after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea last year and its support for armed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Source: Daily News & Analysis
