Cultural ministry properties can offer favorable rent rates to bookshops on their premises, but it remains to be seen how much that can help with a dearth of Russian bookstores.
Russia’s leading publishers and booksellers say they welcome the latest initiative of the Russian Parliament, the State Duma, on the establishment of bookstores in public facilities operated by the Russian Ministry of Culture.
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