The author of the online library Flibusta, which was blocked in Russia in 2016, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and announced the closure of the project. Stiver (the nickname of the creator of the service) announced this on his blog.
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Stiver was hospitalized with “an obscenely sized glioblastoma.” The project’s author wrote that “Flibusta apparently ended there.” The creator of the service noted that the online library’s servers have already been paid for several weeks.
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Flibusta was launched in 2009. The online library offers free electronic versions of books in different languages.
- In April 2016, following complaints from copyright holders, the Moscow City Court banned the online library, as well as its two “mirrors”, for life.
- Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive and fastest growing malignant tumors.
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Bogdan Muzychenko
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