Roskomnadzor banned a dystopian novel about an alternative Russia where “eternal winter” has...

Roskomnadzor banned a dystopian novel about an alternative Russia where “eternal winter” has set in and the “Party of Cold” rules. The book has been pulled from sale

Roskomnadzor has banned in Russia Olga Ptitseva’s dystopian novel “The Two Hundred and Third Day of Winter” and its second part, “Spring of Water,” Verstka found.

A warning that the book “Spring of Water” had been added to the regulator’s register of prohibited information appeared on the website of the portal God Literatury on October 7. The page of the site where the work was mentioned was deleted.

“According to a letter from RKN dated 02.10.2026, the specified book has been included in Roskomnadzor’s Unified Register of Prohibited Information, as well as in the Register of Book Expert Reviews of the ECS RKS, and must be removed from public space on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the warning says.

Earlier, on June 16, at Roskomnadzor’s demand, the God Literatury portal also removed a page with the first part of the dilogy. The reason for that decision was not reported.

Support at the publishing house Polyandria No Age confirmed that the book was banned “by order of Roskomnadzor”. As Verstka noticed, the publisher has already removed both parts of the novel from its website and deleted a number of posts mentioning the dystopia from its Telegram channel. Pages with the novel were also removed by the service “Litres” and the store “Chitai-gorod”.

🟦“The Two Hundred and Third Day of Winter” (2024) and its second part, “Spring of Water” (2025), are a dystopian novel whose main heroine lives in a country where “eternal winter has been declared and the Party of Cold rules,” “food is issued with ration cards, and dissenters are sent to the freezing chamber.” In its review, Meduza called the novel’s universe a metaphor for “alternative Russia.”

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