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# National Electronic Library opens free access to classic works in an app
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/natsionalnaia-elektronnaia-biblioteka-podvedomstvennaia-minkultu-vypustila-prilozhenie-svet-s-besplatnym-dostupom-k-tysiacham-knig-filmov-i-spektaklei/
- Published: 2020-09-25T09:42:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:58:13.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Books, Observations, Society

The National Electronic Library, under the Ministry of Culture, has released an app called “Svet” \[“Light”\] with free access to thousands of books, films and plays. Since we do, after a fashion, have a copyright law, what has been made openly available is mostly classic works whose terms happen to permit it; the idea is simple: to make an acquaintance with the classics possible in the easiest form. Well, we shall see whether this format takes off