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7/29/2025, 1:47:58 PM
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Continuing on the state of censorship in Russia, there aren't really a lot of rules concerning what gets published and what doesn't. There are people who try to censor more things (like trying to ask whether the Russian Academy of Sciences should have its funding cut because one of the people who may become a member of it translated Zizek and some other critics of the State), but they don't actually achieve anything.
Russia's government is incredibly reactionary in a literal sense: it only bites if you bark, so the target selection may appear arbitrary. I hate that a lot about it. There are scandals about books only if someone decides that there should be one. Some people had roared a bit about a book in which a gay teen relationship is shown, but no one can forbid you from going to that bookstore near you and grabbing a tome of Berserk or Blood Meridian or whatever Chinese "totally not BL!!" YA slop is currently popular. I've bought a Bhagavad Gita translation made by a singer who called the people who started the war complete madmen and was also declared a foreign agent by the government from a large publisher in a large bookstore network without a hitch. Generally, there are several rules:
> don't be a loud loud LOUD motherfucker about supporting people who are currently at war with you, DO NOT brag about sending money to their armed forces
> don't do gay shit, especially between underaged people
> don't be loud about saying you want to genocide ethnic groups or justifying child murder because you'll become an easy target for your compatriots who will cancel you for savagery
I was talking to a friend who's into the Middle Ages some weeks ago and she was reading this Bulgakov-bait book about this incurable nerve disease epidemic which only targets children and causes them to die in horrific pain, intertwined with a plot about an ancient Christian commune which was persecuted for their unyielding belief. The main catalyst of the plot was that the government and Putin expies have decided to cut funding for treating the dying children, which leads to problems in building hospices for them and all that, and another side plotline was that the Russian doctors HATE treating foreigners, so there's that Israeli guy who's wounded and his Russian GF tells him to NEVER speak a foreign language or they'll rip their asses. I was honestly surprised they still do shit like this, so we talk a bit more, some weeks pass, I go to my university's library to print some things and would you fucking believe it it's on the front shelf in the NEW RELEASES section.
Russia is a free society, sorta. You can have art exhibitions which are just "funny skinhead gets in funny situations", tattoo ME NE FREGO on your forearms, paint your nails black as a guy, beat up gopniks in a mall with your weeb classmates shouting FUCK YEAH ANIME, walk around in a Gothic Lolita cosplay, whatever. Just don't burn down conscription offices while you're at it.
Continuing on the state of censorship in Russia, there aren't really a lot of rules concerning what gets published and what doesn't. There are people who try to censor more things (like trying to ask whether the Russian Academy of Sciences should have its funding cut because one of the people who may become a member of it translated Zizek and some other critics of the State), but they don't actually achieve anything.
Russia's government is incredibly reactionary in a literal sense: it only bites if you bark, so the target selection may appear arbitrary. I hate that a lot about it. There are scandals about books only if someone decides that there should be one. Some people had roared a bit about a book in which a gay teen relationship is shown, but no one can forbid you from going to that bookstore near you and grabbing a tome of Berserk or Blood Meridian or whatever Chinese "totally not BL!!" YA slop is currently popular. I've bought a Bhagavad Gita translation made by a singer who called the people who started the war complete madmen and was also declared a foreign agent by the government from a large publisher in a large bookstore network without a hitch. Generally, there are several rules:
> don't be a loud loud LOUD motherfucker about supporting people who are currently at war with you, DO NOT brag about sending money to their armed forces
> don't do gay shit, especially between underaged people
> don't be loud about saying you want to genocide ethnic groups or justifying child murder because you'll become an easy target for your compatriots who will cancel you for savagery
I was talking to a friend who's into the Middle Ages some weeks ago and she was reading this Bulgakov-bait book about this incurable nerve disease epidemic which only targets children and causes them to die in horrific pain, intertwined with a plot about an ancient Christian commune which was persecuted for their unyielding belief. The main catalyst of the plot was that the government and Putin expies have decided to cut funding for treating the dying children, which leads to problems in building hospices for them and all that, and another side plotline was that the Russian doctors HATE treating foreigners, so there's that Israeli guy who's wounded and his Russian GF tells him to NEVER speak a foreign language or they'll rip their asses. I was honestly surprised they still do shit like this, so we talk a bit more, some weeks pass, I go to my university's library to print some things and would you fucking believe it it's on the front shelf in the NEW RELEASES section.
Russia is a free society, sorta. You can have art exhibitions which are just "funny skinhead gets in funny situations", tattoo ME NE FREGO on your forearms, paint your nails black as a guy, beat up gopniks in a mall with your weeb classmates shouting FUCK YEAH ANIME, walk around in a Gothic Lolita cosplay, whatever. Just don't burn down conscription offices while you're at it.
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