MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian officials have ordered libraries to remove books by well-known British historians John Keegan and Antony Beevor, saying they promote Nazi-era stereotypes, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.The move is among a raft of measures to exclude perceived foreign influence from fields such as education, and to streamline historical narrative by limiting alternative viewpoints.The regional education ministry in Sverdlovsk, near the Ural Mountains, issued a decree telling school and university libraries to check the availability of books by the historians and take measures to remove them from access by students and teaching staff.Both Keegan, who died in 2012, and …read more
Source: Dunya TV
