The books were handed over to the warehouses of corporate enterprises JSC “Ukrvydavpoligrafia” JSC. From there, publications are sent to cities in Ukraine and Europe.
During this hour, almost 320,000 books were already handed over to volunteer centers in Ukrainian cities and European countries where refugees currently live. Delivery of literature is carried out by trucks of volunteers and volunteer organizations.
The largest number of books was transferred to the Lviv region — more than 25,000. Also, over 125,000 books were sent to Kropyvnytskyi, Ternopil, Drohobych, Chernivtsi, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhgorod, Khmelnytskyi.
In addition, more than 190,000 copies of literature were sent abroad, namely: 45,000 books to Poland, almost 28,000 to Austria, more than 1,000 to Romania, 76,000 to Slovakia, 4,000 to the Czech Republic, more than 1,000 – to Hungary, 2 thousand – to Albania, about 2 thousand – to Croatia, more than 2 thousand – to Switzerland, 2 thousand – to the Netherlands, almost 5 thousand – to Germany, almost 8 thousand – to Great Britain.
Another 18,000 copies of the books are now on their way to Slovakia and Austria.
The campaign was launched on March 15 by the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine together with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
The purpose of the campaign is to provide children who were forced to relocate to escape Russian armed aggression with textbooks, study aids, and fiction free of charge.
We will remind you that 100,000 copies of literature were sent to different European countries during this campaign.
As you know, the books were delivered to Poland, Lithuania, Great Britain and other countries as part of the “Books without Borders” project for children from Ukraine who were forced to leave for other countries.
The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine will allow the import of books from the Russian Federation to Ukrainian territory, referring to the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in 2016, the press service of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting reported.
“The issuance of permits for the import of books from the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine is carried out in accordance with the law that was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at the end of 2016. This law provides that import permits are not granted exclusively to books of anti-Ukrainian content, as well as those containing propaganda in favor of the aggressor state,” the message said.
The department said that over the entire period of the law and, accordingly, the functioning of the licensing system, not a single book of anti-Ukrainian content has entered Ukraine legally, and the volume of books brought from the Russian Federation has decreased 12 times compared to 2011. It is reported that during 2017-2020 the law of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting made it possible to import into Ukraine 31,000 titles of books from Russia. Most of the books allowed for import are works of world classics, children’s and popular science literature. Part of the permits were issued for the import into Ukraine of Ukrainian-language books by Ukrainian publishing houses, printed in the Russian Federation.
In addition, during 2017-2020, the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting provided 4,274 refusals to importers to import book products from the Russian Federation. Most of the refusals related to the submission of an incomplete package of documents by the applicants, and in 274 cases – anti-Ukrainian content found in publications.
Almost 1.5 million copies of anti-Ukrainian publications were not allowed to be imported into Ukraine. At the same time, the department reported that a complete cessation or restriction of the import of Russian books into the territory of Ukraine is possible only through the adoption of an appropriate law, which would provide for an embargo on their import.
BOOKS, IMPORT, RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN STATE COMMITTEE ON TELEVISION
