politics
February 13, 2026
Ukraine to ban Russian literature
The Ukrainian government is preparing a bill to take Russian-language books out of circulation, Tatyana Berezhnaya has said
TL;DR
- Ukraine is preparing a draft law to ban Russian and Russian-language books.
- The Ukrainian Culture Minister, Tatyana Berezhnaya, confirmed the media authority is working on the bill.
- This action is part of a broader trend of Ukraine removing Russian cultural links and restricting the Russian language.
- Previous measures include banning book imports from Russia and Belarus and removing Russian from state curricula.
- Moscow considers Ukraine's policies against ethnic Russians and the Russian language a cause of the conflict.
- The Ukrainian parliament has stripped Russian of its protection under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
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