The head of Read-City said that the chain spent 100 million rubles to remove banned books from sale. They are destroyed by means of a camera shredder The largest book chain in Russia, "Kara-Gorod" - "Bookbud", has spent about 100 million rubles in recent years on removing from sale and destroying books that do not comply with Russian laws, said the head of the chain, Alexander Brychkin. He explained that books cannot be thrown away - they are toxic waste. "Accordingly, they have to get rid, and it's also at our expense," Barichkin added. According to him, "the recycling process looks like this: a service provider destroys books on camera through an industrial shredder." The head of the chain said that the book was removed from sale after they received a message from the Russian Book Union (RBU) that "there are suspicions about this or that book". After that, the chain stops selling it "until clarity comes." "Of course, there can be no absolute clarity in this situation. Because even if RKS doesn't find anything in the book, there is no guarantee that at that very moment some kind of parallel investigation isn't underway somewhere in the bowels of another organization," Barchkin added.