The Moscow publishing house “Zakharov” reported on Facebook (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned) that two employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia went to the warehouse to seize books by Boris Akunin (listed as a terrorist). and extremists).
“If [на складе] There will be no one (and there will be no one there), they will open the doors,” the message says.
Zakharov also shared the good news; The publishing house noted that a lawyer came to see them and the defense lawyer had already been let in.
“Employees of the Investigative Committee demand the key to the warehouse in order to seize copies of Akunin’s books. Although the books do not contain extremism or calls for it, there is no reason why they should be banned. We do not give the key,” they explained in the next post.
It became known on December 19 that investigators came to search the Zakharov publishing house in Moscow, which published Boris Akunin’s books. A representative of Zakharov later confirmed in a conversation with RTVI that the search was related to Boris Akunin’s books.
Akunin lately commented He searches the Zakharov publishing house, which publishes his books. The author believes that law enforcement agencies may come to other publishing houses. Akunin also noted that searches can be made in theater halls, bookstores, libraries and film studios where his shows are staged.
On behalf of Yandex, which has just released the series “Azazel”, I am very worried about Vladimir Mashkov (“State Counselor”) and Dmitry Pevtsov (“Turkish Gambit”). For Konstantin Ernst, this is just scary. And worst of all, for his accomplice Nikita Mikhalkov, who earned the most money from my film adaptations and what he spent it on is unknown,” Akunin said.
Previously in the author Akunin started Criminal case for discrediting the Russian army.