In the St. Petersburg Russian National Library there was a scandal.
Rosbalt with reference to the publication “City 812” reports that on March 25, on the day of cultural workers, the library staff at the entrance to the building placed a congratulatory poster with the image of the Soviet and Russian literary critic, the culturologist Yuri Lotman. The head of the Security Department passed by the head, he decided that a portrait of an American writer Mark Twain was posted on the poster. He wrote the director of the library to Vladimir Grona denunciation, accusing employees in “Propaganda of Extremism and Terrorism”. The library director instructed to hold a clarificatory conversation with “guilty” and deprived them of the quarterly award.
Olga Kaganovskaya, head of the cultural program of the RNB, decided after this incident to quit: “Yes, the story of Truthful, we are not sufficient. I really wrote an application for dismissal from April 11. Statement was signed without comments.”