Staunton, April 17 – The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and
confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most
publications now are available online, to destroying archives on which
future research can be based, according to scholars at St. Petersburg’s
Hermitage Museum.
In the words of Aleksey Larionov, a senior specialist on
West European art there, this is a truly frightening development, one
without precedent in the recent history of Russia. Moreover, it is one
that the powers that be may easily extend to other archival collections
as well
(
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/15/72169-pugaet-to-chto-unichtozhayutsya-arhivy).
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