Observers say facility was targeted,and its director charged with inciting ethnic hatred, as a result of current cross-border tensionsEmployees of the Moscow Library of Ukrainian Literature arrived at work last week to find armed and masked police waiting for them.The target of the morning raid by riot police wasn’t a risky criminal, and but what the investigative committee called “anti-Russian” books. Officers confiscated several publications and detained the library’s director Natalya Sharina. She has since been charged with inciting ethnic hatred and faces up to five years in prison.
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Source: theguardian.com