Vladimir Sorokin loses copyright case
Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin lost his copyright lawsuit against protesters who reprinted, then burned copies of his book Goluboye Salo. The pro-Putin youth movement Moving Together wants the book banned over its absurdist sex scene between clones of Stalin and Krushchev. Moving Together managed to convince Moscow police to investigate Sorokin on obscenity charges. Last month Sorokin denounced the police investigation, calling the affair "absurd, vicious and humiliating to me as a writer and humiliating to Russian literature as a whole."
