The books, released in 2013 or 2014, were handed to the library by the president of the Moscow-based Association of Russian publishers Oleg Filimonov and the director of the Russian Scientific and Cultural Centre in Ljubljana Rifat Pateev.

The head of the Slavic Library, operating as part of MKL, Teja Zorko told the STA the books are a selection of the latest releases and are very diverse. Also among them are books appropriate for learning Russian.

This is the second Russian donation after the Russian Embassy and Patteev already secured in 2010 a donation of 250 new releases.

The Slavic Library has more than 180,000 books, 5,300 in Russian, and also provides an extensive selection of works by Slovenian authors translated into a multitude of languages.