"This is about 30% of our entire collection."
In Yekaterinburg, one third of the library's collection will be removed due to the fact that they were purchased with funds from the Soros Foundation. This was reported by the city publication "Evening News" during a meeting of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, where the director of the Municipal Library Association of the city, Irina Cheremisina, spoke.
"The main bulk of the books was purchased in the 1990s. We are currently facing changes in legislation. Some books we have to remove from the collection because they were acquired with Soros's money. This is about 30% of our entire collection," said Cheremisina, responding to a question from the deputy from "Yabloko," Konstantin Kiselev, about the library's collection.
At the same meeting, the acting director of the Department of Culture of Yekaterinburg, Elena Sokolova, stated that there is currently a shortage of books in libraries, and the budget lacks funds to replenish the collections.
The Soros Foundation (Open Society Institute) actively operated in Russia from the late 1980s until 2003. The Foundation primarily focused on educational programs, assistance to students and scholars, funded the construction of internet centers, and allocated resources for supporting translations, as well as publishing books and textbooks.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia declared the Soros Foundation a so-called undesirable organization. After that, 53 textbooks published with the support of the Soros Foundation were burned at the Vorkuta Mining and Economic College.
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