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Putin & Co: Keep your curvaceous noses out of the people’s bedrooms, and out of their bookshelves! – Russia’s Control Over Private Lives: The Kremlin is aggressively expanding its control over private life by targeting classic literature and personal identities. New laws are forcing bookstores and libraries to purge or redact famous works to align with rigid state moral codes.


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Russia Ramps Up Censorship of Classic Books

Saturday, May 2, 20262:52 PM

Summary 

The Kremlin is aggressively expanding its control over private life by targeting classic literature and personal identities. New laws are forcing bookstores and libraries to purge or redact famous works to align with rigid state moral codes.

Key Stories

  • Classic literature faces new state scrutiny — Russian authorities are now labeling masterpieces by authors like Pushkin and Turgenev as 18 plus content to comply with strict new morality and drug propaganda laws.

  • LGBTQ plus movement labeled as extremist — The state has effectively criminalized private identities by classifying international LGBTQ plus movements as extremist organizations and banning non-traditional sexual relations.

  • Drug propaganda laws trigger book bans — Starting in March 2026, a new law mandates the removal of books containing drug references, affecting world-famous titles like The Master and Margarita.

  • Publishers forced into aggressive self-censorship — Fearing heavy fines, many publishers are blacking out passages or rewriting sections of books without telling readers to avoid state penalties.

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#Putin #Putinism #Russia Russia's Control Over Private Lives Putin & Co: Keep your curvaceous noses out of the people's bedrooms, and out of their bookshelves! - - Russia's Control Over Private Lives That sentiment captures a very real and escalating reality right now. The Kremlin’s apparatus has been aggressively expanding its reach from the public square directly into the most intimate spheres of its citizens' lives. On the "bedroom" front, the state’s classification of the international LGBTQ+ movement as an "extremist organization," along with sweeping laws against so-called "non-traditional sexua
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#Putin #Russia #PrisonCulture Putin & Co promote the ugly, homophobic, slavish Russian Prison Camp Culture and mentality, and they suppress the real culture and Truth. It will not end well for them, sooner or later.
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#Putin #Literature #Censorship Opinion | Putin dials up repression against bookstores, songs and classic poetry Russia extends censorship to classic literature - Search Pic.: Russia's book police - France 24 Vladimir Putin is reportedly targeting classic Russian literature and poetry as part of a wider clampdown on anything seen as dissent against the state. Russia is increasingly applying censorship to classic literature and renowned authors, utilizing strict "drug propaganda" and LGBTQ+ restriction laws to enfo
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#Putin #Literature #Censorship Opinion | Putin dials up repression against bookstores, songs and classic poetry Russia extends censorship to classic literature - Search Pic.: Russia's book police Vladimir Putin is reportedly targeting classic Russian literature and poetry as part of a wider clampdown on anything seen as dissent against the state. Russia is increasingly applying censorship to classic literature and renowned authors, utilizing strict "drug propaganda" and LGBTQ+ restriction laws to enforce changes,
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#News Review in #Articles and #Tweets 9 AM - 5.2.26 Europe Shifts Policies as Geopolitical Tensions Rise: The European Parliament is taking a stand on social rights with a new ban on conversion therapy, while political shifts in Hungary and Russia are making headlines. Meanwhile, activists are calling for urgent western support for opposition figures in the Caucasus region.
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RT by @mikenov: Z-блогер Калашников призвал россиян готовиться к тому, что Путина скоро не станет
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RT by @mikenov: The European Union and the democratic West should urgently support @AliKarimli, who is currently imprisoned and is one of the leading political opposition figures in the South Caucasus. Only through this approach can Europe help establish peace and stability in the South Caucasus pic.
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RT by @mikenov: Our latest interactive map "Russia's Cognitive Warfare Infrastructure" is live. Navigate to the links in our thread to view this map, along with its related research report. (1/2) pic.
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In @nytopinion “The Democrats’ fundamental condition is a late-Trumpian stasis — in which the president’s stark unpopularity encourages his opponents to imagine that they can keep everything basically as it was in the Biden era,” Ross Douthat writes. https://nyti.ms/3PeX3yg


The post In @nytopinion “The Democrats’ fundamental condition is a late-Trumpian stasis — in which the president’s stark unpopularity encourages his opponents to imagine that they can keep everything basically as it was in the Biden era,” Ross Douthat writes. https://nyti.ms/3PeX3yg first appeared on October Surprise 2016 – octobersurprise2016.org.

The post In @nytopinion “The Democrats’ fundamental condition is a late-Trumpian stasis — in which the president’s stark unpopularity encourages his opponents to imagine that they can keep everything basically as it was in the Biden era,” Ross Douthat writes. https://nyti.ms/3PeX3yg first appeared on The World Web Times – worldwebtimes.com.


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Danco Laboratories seeks Supreme Court stay of ruling pausing mail-order access to abortion drugs http://reut.rs/4tOd2lO http://reut.rs/4tOd2lO


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