Investigation in case of director of Ukrainian library in Moscow completed

The investigation has filed final charges in the case of Natalia Sharina, the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow.

Lawyer Ivan Pavlov posted this on his Facebook page, noting he would examine the case files, including the records of interrogation of some lawyers, the next week.

Natalia Sharina is accused of violating Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “inciting hatred or enmity.” The investigators believe that she was distributing printed materials containing “anti-Russian and anti-state propaganda.” This happened after the investigators found the books of Ukrainian nationalist Dmytro Korchynsky among the books that had not been indexed or available for readers yet.

Then, the investigators opened a criminal case under Article 160 of the Criminal Code “embezzlement.” The investigation accuses Sharina of spending the funds, intended for the library’s lawyers, on her defense in the first criminal case on extremism, which was subsequently closed, in 2011-2013.

As reported, searches in the Library of Ukrainian Literature were held in late October 2015. Sharina does not admit her guilt. She was placed under house arrest by the decision of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow.

Earlier it was reported that the psycholinguist expert indicated calls for ethnic hatred in the books.