POLITICS● ELEVATED4d ago · Oct 28, 2026, 10:12 AM
Russia’s largest bookstore chain says it has spent millions of rubles pulling banned books from sale. They’re shredded on camera.
Meduza [en] · eastern europe
Russia’s largest bookstore chain, Chitai-Gorod–Bukvoed, has spent about 100 million rubles in recent years pulling books that violate Russian law from sale and destroying them, the chain’s head, Alexander Brychkin, said in an interview with the Russian business news outlet RBC.
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