Natalia Sharina Biography

The court announced the verdict to the ex-director of the library of Ukrainian literature. DW found out how a cultural institution became a "severine of extremism." KudryavtSev Advertising on Monday, June 5, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow announced the verdict to the former director of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina. She was accused under the article by the prosecutor's office demanded 5 years of conditional term, judge Elena Gudoshnikova softened the verdict up to 4 years.

The island without politics Natalya Sharina has been under house arrest for the past year and a half and did not work in the library. The institution itself was disbanded - the Moscow Department of Culture decided to send funds to the Slavic department of the library of foreign literature named after Shemetov before the end of the year the library on Trifonovskaya Street was a classic example of friendship of peoples of almost Soviet model.

The library visitors were mostly elderly people who nostalgic for the general past. They went to the evenings of Ukrainian poetry, listened to old gramophone records, arranged tea drinks, song evenings and flatly refused to talk about politics: one of the employees answered the question of the DWB -DONBASS correspondent that "culture is salvation, including from politics." About 25 books in Ukrainian were stored in the library - from Taras Shevchenko to Hemingway and Welbek translated into Ukrainian.

Director Natalya Sharina - a librarian with many years of experience - kept only administrative work and did not engage in the maintenance of funds. For the content, the deputy director Vitaliy Krikunenko, a poet, translator, editor who perfectly speak both languages, was responsible for the content. According to Krikunenko, then there were many national libraries in Moscow, and Ukrainian totaled as many as 6 branches.

And half a century later, these books from Lviv returned to Moscow, ”says the librarian. The demonstration of the problem began in the year when one of the library employees, writer Sergei Sokurov -Vereliko, quarreled with the ball. Sokurov, Sokurov for a long time was an active participant in the Russian movement in Ukraine and even received an honorary sign of the International Council of Russian Compatriots for the Contribution of Russian Mira.

"At the beginning of X Sokurov, he was forced to leave Lviv in the near Moscow Reutov" under the pressure of Ukrainian national radicals, "he reports this in an autobiography on his website. In the year, Sokurov got a job at the Ukrainian library, and he was fired in M. He later described the circumstances of the conflict with Sharina at a conflict with her: "In the year, my book was published about Russian-Ukrainian relations" The Motives of the New Roin "was published.

I asked Sharina N. The Ukrainian community is poorly related to my work, since I am against any separatism." Almost immediately after the dismissal of Sokurov, the first search was held in the library - as part of the SK check under the article, the political relations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine were then good, and the matter, partly under the pressure of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, was closed.

Sokurov-Velichko remained unhappy. According to the results of his press conference, a letter of worried Muscovites to Sergey Sobyanin was published: "We, signing this letter, hope that you, our new mayor, pay attention to the main problem of the library of Ukrainian literature." After that, the case opened several times and closed again. But the appeal of worried citizens did not remain unanswered: by the year the relations between the countries were spoiled, and extremism in the library was finally officially discovered.

Sokurov-Velichko became the main witness in the ball. The forbidden books by Dmitro Korchinsky “Wave in the crowd”, Vladimir Vasilenko “Holodomor as a crime of genocide”, Dmitry Pavlychko “Voices of my life” - only about 25 items. Most of the verdict, which the judge read for two and a half hours, was the transfer of little -known books of Ukrainian nationalists. The circumstances in which these materials got into the library still remain unclear - Sharina suggests that some of them could be thrown away during the search, since they do not have a library stamp.

One way or another, there are books in the search protocol that are really listed in the federal list of extremist materials. Lawyer Sharina Ivan Pavlov believes that this does not matter: “At least say something about the intent of the ball,” he told reporters after the trial. The storage of materials, even if included in all terrible lists, does not form the corpus delicti, there is administrative responsibility for this.

” Sharina adds that "even if the books were in the library, they were outside the subscription and reading room. Therefore, it is completely incomprehensible how I could distribute them. "Pavlov considers this case to" Klondike of violations of all possible conventions and principles "and is going to file a complaint with the ECHR. At the same time, he understands that Sharina has relatively easily escaped:" In Soviet times, there was such an anecdom when the judge was asked: could you put an innocent person?

The judge thought for a long time, then answered: "No, I could not.I would give conditionally. "Soviet times are returning."