Russia’s book police: Literature, once exempt, gets censor’s chop

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Russia’s book police: Literature, once exempt, gets censor’s chop A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in the country.