Ex-Popcorn Books employees testified against Eksmo's top managers

Testimony in the case of LGBT propaganda (the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) against the leadership of the Eksmo publishing house was given by former employees of Popcorn Books. This was announced on April 21 by a source of Izvestia.

In addition, it became known that Dmitry Protopopov, the former head of the discontinued Popcorn Books publishing house, entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation into a criminal case related to charges of extremism.

Book confessions: Eksmo employees may be accused of LGBT propaganda

The investigation is preparing documents on the arrest of three managers of the publishing house in the case of extremism

Evgeny Kapyev, CEO of Eksmo Publishing house, was detained on April 21 in connection with LGBT propaganda. The security forces also detained the editor-in-chief of Eksmo, Alexandra Shipetina, and she was immediately taken away for questioning. In Moscow, law enforcement officers searched the management of the Eksmo-AST publishing group. A criminal case has been opened under Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organization of the activities of an extremist organization").

According to Izvestia, the investigation is related to the distribution of LGBT novels "Summer in a Pioneer Tie" and "What the Swallow is silent about" by Elena Prokasheva (pseudonym - Elena Malisova, recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) and Ekaterina Dudko (pseudonym — Katerina Silvanova, recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent). Other LGBT works are also involved in the case.