Natalia Sharina

On December 21, 2010, a search was conducted at the Library of Ukrainian Literature as part of a criminal case related to incitement to national hatred, as a number of books with an "anti-Russian orientation" were discovered there. On August 2, 2011, Nataliya Sharina, the director of the library, was implicated as a defendant in the case. In 2013, the charges against Sharina were dropped.

On October 28, 2015, the Library of Ukrainian Literature was searched once again, and a case involving incitement to national hatred was initiated against Sharina, based on a book found on the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Sharina and other library staff assert that the book was planted. Sharina was detained for 24 hours without food, sleep, or medical attention and was subsequently placed under house arrest.

In late March 2016, it was disclosed that another case had been filed against Sharina, this time on charges of embezzlement. According to investigators, she had used the funds allocated for the library's legal defense in the previous criminal case. On June 1, 2017, she was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment.