Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Chekov beware: Putin is coming for the books. The latest front in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on LGBTQ+ people is purging books with LGBTQ+ content from Russia’s ...

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

Mikhail Zygar was the founding editor in chief of TV Rain, Russia’s lone independent news television station until it went into exile in 2022, and the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men” and “The Empire ...

In Vladimir Putin's Russia, writing about certain subjects — the war in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church or LGBTQ+ life — can mean prison time. But for a new generation of Russian writers living ...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -In a bookstore in the Russian city of St Petersburg, employees are painstakingly cutting out labels, placing them on the covers of books and sealing the volumes in clear ...

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Over the course of 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare Russian books—mostly prized editions by Alexander Pushkin—vanished from libraries across Europe in what may be the most ambitious book theft spree ...