Podoby cenzúry v súčasnej ruskej literatúre
Forms of censorship in contemporary Russian literature

Summary/Abstract: After centuries of first tsarist and then communist censorship in Russia, censorship was finallyprohibited by the Constitution in 1993. The censorship-free 1990s (with all the pros and cons)were followed by a search for new mechanisms of censorship and new forms of prohibitionby the authorities to determine a certain control of the state over the mass media and variousforms of art, including literature. New legislation (the 2013 law banning propaganda ofnon-traditional sexual relationships and denial of traditional family values among minors,the 2014 law banning foul language in the arts, the 2016 amendments of anti-extremism law)has become one such mechanism. On the one hand, the laws result in authors’ self-censorship;on the other, they provide not only the authorities but also individuals, activist groupsor various citizen or religious associations with the opportunity to sue the author or the publisherof a literary work in court.

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