INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A union of leading Russian publishers and libraries has created an advisory body that would evaluate books for their compliance with the
center will issue recommendations on individual books, but leave the final decision to pull the books from sale up to the publishers,
that it would suspend sales of three books by United States authors James Baldwin and Michael Cunningham, as well as the Russian postmodern
252 books published by Russian journalists in February amid fears that publishers and major online distributors would pull them from shelves
authors Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov.Vedomosti reported that the Russian Book Union had discussed creating the expert council with state
media watchdog Roskomnadzor in January 2023
military and historical societies and legal and educational professionals as well as Orthodox Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders,
