Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 14A bill proposing to ban the import and distribution in Ukraine of publishing products from the Russian Federation and Belarus, as well as books written by Russian citizens, has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. The bill proposes a number of changes to laws «on publishing», «on the list of documents of a permissive nature in the field of economic activity». «As a result of these changes, the import and distribution in Ukraine of publishing products from the Russian Federation, Belarus, and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will be prohibited. Previously issued permits for the import and distribution of such products are canceled,» the text of the explanatory note on the website of the Ukrainian parliament reads. of the points — a ban on the import and distribution of books «whose authors are or were in any period after 1991 a citizen us of the aggressor state.» In addition, the bill proposes to introduce a permitting procedure for importing publications published in Russian from other countries. Among the initiators of the bill are Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk, deputies from the presidential party «Servant of the People» Nikita Poturaev, Alexander Kornienko, Elena Kondratyuk .
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