Electronic services and official portals have begun placing drug warnings on books by writers, including Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Russian media reports this, as relayed by UNN.
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"Warning labels have appeared in Gogol's stories "The Nose" and "Viy". Such labeling is found in the electronic libraries "LitRes" and "KION Stroki" (MTS project), as well as in individual product cards on Ozon. Both text versions and audiobooks have been labeled. In Pushkin, the warning appeared on a collection of poems from the 1814–1836 period. On "LitRes," a labeled collection of Leo Tolstoy's children's stories and a collection by Ivan Turgenev including the works "Asya" and "Fathers and Sons" were found", - Russian media reports.
In the case of Bulgakov, warnings were found not only in digital services but also on the Moscow mayor's office portal. The label accompanies collections with the works "Morphine" and "Notes of a Young Doctor," as well as "Notes on the Cuff." In addition, on "LitRes," similar labels appeared in a collection that includes "The White Guard" and "The Master and Margarita." Cards with similar labels are also found on Ozon.
"The reasons for the appearance of labels on specific works are unknown. Most likely, this may be related to isolated mentions of narcotic substances in the text or erroneous automatic classification. For example, in "The White Guard," morphine is mentioned exclusively as a medicinal remedy used to treat a wounded hero", - Russian media notes.
As stated, none of the mentioned works are included in the list of books that the Russian Book Union previously recommended for labeling. The head of the State Duma Committee on State Construction, Pavel Krasheninnikov, also stated that books by Tolstoy and Bulgakov would not fall under the law on drug propaganda.
Recall
In Russian in Ukraine, over a little more than 470 were published, with a print run of over 350 thousand copies. In English – 377 book titles, with a circulation of 923 thousand copies.