The book “Putin – The results” is written by the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and regarded as extremist literature by the police, Solidarity writes on the organization’s web site. 1000 copies of the book were seized by the police when activists came to pick them up at the train station in Murmansk. Two people involved in the case were taken in for questioning.
Boris Nemtsov was deputy prime minister in Boris Yeltsin’s government from 1997 to 1998 and is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
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Another lot of the book was confiscated by the police in St. Petersburg in June, but was returned to the opposition group when the police did not find any traces of extremism in it.
In the book “Putin – The results” (Путин. Итоги. 10 лет) the authors use open sources to tell the public that in course of the last ten years the population in Russia has shrunk with five million, the share of high technology in export fell from 10.9 to 5 percent, the number of terrorist attacks quintupled and the number of new roads was halved, Solidarity writes.
The book has been published in one million copies.
Read the book in English here
