The City Court rejected the appeal of the European University in St. Petersburg against a fine for storing eight books that were published with the support of “undesirable organizations.” This is reported on the university website.
The crux of the matter. The European University in St. Petersburg demanded to cancel the decision of the Dzerzhinsky court, which fined the university a total of 70 thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization.”
In May 2023, prosecutors seized eight books from the university library that were published with the support of two “undesirable organizations,” the Open Society Institute and the Kennan Institute. Later, the court ordered the destruction of the books, equating their storage to the distribution of materials from “undesirable organizations.”
As representatives of the European University note, all the books reached the university no later than 2009 – long before the adoption of the law on “undesirable organizations.” Subsequently, the prohibited publications were kept in a special fund and were not issued to anyone. In addition, the university noted that both institutes did not publish books, and their content is not related to the activities of “undesirable organizations.”
Precedent. This is the first such case in the work of universities, lawyer Sergei Markov told the BBC Russian Service.
At the same time, the books confiscated from the European University are stored in the Russian National Library and the Russian Public Historical Library, and are also included in the curricula of other universities, bibliographic lists of numerous dissertations, noted the BBC Russian Service.
Books. A monograph on the interpretation of the philosopher Lao Tzu, research on the development of science and the Internet in Russia, materials on the humanities and socio-economic disciplines, and a collection of materials from a Russian-British seminar on the work of museums in a market economy held in St. Petersburg were confiscated from the European University.
Photo: European University website
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