Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin supported the decision to raise the status of the National Prize in children’s and adolescent literature and make it a government award. This was reported by TASS.
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development made a proposal to increase the status of the award. The ministry noted that the creation of such an award as the government award would increase the social significance of modern indigenous literature and draw the attention of readers and the public to it.
As TASS reported, the Ministry of Digital Development will now be instructed, together with other relevant departments, to prepare draft documents on the creation of a government award in the field of children’s and adolescent literature and submit it to the Cabinet of Ministers.
Before that, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein surePropaganda of the new law on LGBT (“International LGBT Social Movement” is considered extremist and is banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) will not affect the works of Russian and foreign classics. Khinshtein confirmed that the list of banned books existed; This list was compiled by the Association of Internet Commerce Companies (AKIT) when the law was not yet adopted.
Previously, books of foreign agents were located in the libraries of Russian regions started to give according to passports.