In Moscow detained kidnappers books from the library INION – BBC Russian

• 8 April 2015

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In response to a fire in the Metropolitan Library UNION took more than a day

Moscow police detained two suspected of selling 12 books stolen during restoration work in the library burned down in January INION, the press service of the Moscow police.

As the official representative of the Interior Ministry chief of Russia in Moscow Andrei Galiakberov, two suspects were arrested in the Arbat. They found 12 books with the stamp of the Fundamental Library of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

“The books were stolen during the reconstruction after the fire that occurred on January 30 this year. They seized and sent for examination, the question of excitation criminal case, “- said Galiakberov.

The list of seized books appear editions published between 1848 and 1906, including issues of the journals “Notes of the Fatherland” and “contemporary”.

In the press group of the Moscow Criminal Investigation agency Interfax reported, that the detainees – born in the Tver region and Tatarstan at the age of 26 and 29 years.

According to the investigation, the suspects worked as volunteers, helping to analyze debris after a fire and put the surviving books in boxes, one of which they stole.

The fire in the library INION began the evening of 30 January on its liquidation took more than a day. Fire destroyed about a fifth of all funds.

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A few days after the fire, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that about 80% of the books were on the the second floor of the block, little affected by the fire.

4 February damaged by fire building looked Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, the Russian government, which has promised to do everything possible to recover the maximum number of the library.

The willingness to participate in the restoration of funds expressed other Moscow libraries, as well as experts from the European Institute of the Italian political, economic and social research.

The head of the Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes Andrei Makarov said that the draft federal budget in 2015 for the second reading to raise funds to repair the burnt library.

Finding the causes of the fire continues. March 4 Federation Council member Elena Afanasyev reported that a fire could have been “planned action” for the destruction of cultural monuments in order to rewrite history.

INION – the largest research centers in Russia in the field of social sciences and humanities.

His collection consists of 14.2 million copies in ancient and modern languages, including rare editions XVI – early XX centuries.