Law enforcement came to Eksmo over the “book publishers’ case.” What is known at this moment

Law enforcement came to Eksmo over the “book publishers’ case.” What is known at this moment

✹ On the afternoon of April 21, it became known that law enforcement officers had come with searches to the management of the Eksmo publishing house. At the same time, the publishing house itself continues to operate, and some executives learned about the searches from the news, “Ostorozhno, Novosti” writes.

✹ Eksmo general director Yevgeny Kapyev and several other employees have been detained. Among those detained, according to Mash, is the publishing house’s editor-in-chief Alexandra Shipetina.

✹ Kapyev is a suspect in the case. According to Kommersant, he is being charged under the article on organizing the activities of an “extremist” organization. The status of the other detainees is unknown.

✹ Investigators believe that Kapyev was involved in distributing the novels by Elena Malisova and Katerina Silvanova, “Summer in a Pioneer Tie” and “What the Swallow Is Silent About.” These books are described as the pretext for the “book publishers’ case,” which was opened back in 2025.

✹ Mash claims that other defendants in the case, former Eksmo employees, gave testimony against the publishing house.

✹ Kapyev, one of the BBC Russian Service’s sources said, left Russia for a while after the first detentions in the “book publishers’ case” in 2025, but returned, counting on the idea that “if they hadn’t touched him for a year, then everything was fine.”

✹ The Eksmo-AST group confirmed that Kapyev and several other Eksmo employees had been taken in for questioning in the “book publishers’ case.” They stated that no searches were conducted at the publishing house’s office.

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