RUSSIA’S PUBLISHERS CRITICISE MOSCOW SCHOOL TEXTBOOK DIRECTIVE TO BUY FROM RIVAL CO-OWNED BY PUTIN’S FRIEND
May 1st, 2016
Leading Russian publishing houses have filed a petition to the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), asking it to prevent the ever growing domination of Prosveshenye publishing house in the domestic market, especially educational textbooks.
The move follows a recently issued recommendation from the Moscow city government’s education department to its secondary schools to give preference to Prosveshenye books when procuring literature for their school curricula.
According to the protesters, the provided recommendation violates the Russian federal law ...
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