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Weekly News Digest
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Moscow Librarian Found Guilty of 'Inciting Ethnic Hatred'
According to ABC News, “A Moscow court on Monday convicted the director of a Ukrainian library of inciting ethnic hatred to Russians and imposed a four-year suspended sentence.” The case of Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature director, Natalya Sharina, covered here, began in 2015 when she was put under house arrest for providing books by Ukrainian activist Dmytro Korchynsky, “which are banned in Russia. Sharina had pleaded not guilty and said the books had been planted in the library. The Ukrainian government dismissed the trial as a political witch-hunt.”For more information, read the article.
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