Vedomosti reports over 50% of Russia’s library holdings could be seized under literal reading of ‘foreign agent’ and ‘undesirable’ laws

More than 50 percent of Russia’s library holdings could be subject to seizure under a literal reading of the country’s laws on “foreign agents” and “undesirable” organizations, the head of the Eksmo-AST publishing group warned at a meeting of the Organizational Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing, and Reading in Russia, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported.