Russia begins banning books in its war on “gay propaganda”

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Russia begins banning books in its war on “gay propaganda”

Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Chekov beware: Putin is coming for the books. The latest front in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on LGBTQ+ people is purging books with LGBTQ+ content from Russia’s bookshelves and the internet. A new council set up by the Russian Book Union, a nominally independent body representing publishing professionals, has been tasked with conforming the publishing industry to Russia’s trifecta of anti-gay laws and rulings, a…