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Russia’s largest bookstore chain says it has spent millions of rubles pulling banned books from sale. They’re shredded on camera.

Russia’s largest bookstore chain, Chitai-Gorod–Bukvoed, has spent about 100 million rubles in recent years pulling books that violate Russian law from sale and destroying them, the chain’s head, Alexander Brychkin, said in an interview with the Russian business news outlet RBC.

Russia’s largest bookstore chain says it has spent millions of rubles pulling banned books from sale. They’re shredded on camera.

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