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January 30, 2005: Russian Police Confiscate Writings by Pushkin as "Obscene"
"A collection of his poems has been seized by Russian police as part of a crack-down on "obscene" literature. The move has horrified the nation’s literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses."
