The Russian bookstore Megamarket was despatched an inventory of books to be faraway from sale on account of “LGBT propaganda”. Journalist Alexander Plyushchev printed an inventory of 257 titles on his Telegram channel, writes The Moscow Occasions.
The checklist contains not solely literary novelties, but additionally classics. For instance, the shop ought to take away from its web site ads for the books “Netochka Nezvanova” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Pyrrhus” by Plato, “The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio, “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, “In Search of Misplaced Time” by Marcel Proust and “It” by Stephen King.
Amongst these prohibited on the market are works by different world classics – Stefan Zweig, Andre Gide, Yukio Mishima, Patti Smith and Julio Cortázar, in addition to modern authors akin to Haruki Murakami and Victoria Tokareva.
Plyushchev doesn’t specify who particularly insisted on the elimination of the books of all these authors from sale. “Megamarket” is owned by Sberbank (85%), M. Video-Eldorado (10%), in addition to the founding father of M.Video and items.ru (5%).
In December 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a regulation banning LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender reassignment. Legal responsibility for breaking the regulation applies to individuals of any age. Beforehand, LGBT propaganda was prohibited solely amongst minors.
In November 2023, the Supreme Courtroom of the Russian Federation declared the “worldwide public LGBT motion”, which doesn’t exist, to be extremist and banned in Russia. In keeping with the court docket resolution, “contributors within the motion are united by the presence of sure morals, customs and traditions (for instance, homosexual parades), … a particular language (the usage of doubtlessly female phrases, akin to chief, director, creator, psychologist). “
The court docket believes that the “LGBT motion” can distort youngsters’s understanding of conventional values and has a damaging ideological influence on Russians.
The “motion” has turn out to be a risk to Russia’s nationwide pursuits and the demographic state of affairs, the Supreme Courtroom of Russia wrote in its resolution. It’s stated that to realize this, the LGBT motion makes use of propaganda – placing LGBT symbols on toys, garments, producing particular literature and holding occasions close to colleges and kids’s libraries.
Illustration: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Portrait by Vasily Perov c. 1872