print versionLibrarianship is an entire sector, with its own traditions. The Russian State Library has a duty policeman to combat vandalism. And rightly so, as there are Moscovites who avoid the cost of photocopying and prefer to rip pages from books. But as soon as information leaves its printed form and becomes electronic, no one is responsible for its fate. To ensure the mass of publications by the major newspaper finds itself beyond the zone of access, all that was required is to dump the website search facility. Can you imagine that the Russian State Library withdrew the binding of newspapers only because the style changed? Yet it is no problem to cater for a change in the design of a website. Even online magazines have contrived to deprive the user of access to archives. Apparently, we need a vertical power structure and Putin in for a third term to make something like the or .
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