Demand for spies

Kommersant reports:

“Publishers, distributors and online cinemas note the growth of Russians' interest in literature on spies, films and series about scouts-sales of such content are growing rapidly. Video services are already planning to produce original products about spies. Experts observe a similar trend abroad and generally associate it with the “current geopolitical tension”, noting that a similar situation was observed during the Cold War.

According to Kommersant in the Litors Civil Code, the sales of art and popular science books about spies grew in the first quarter compared to the same period last year by almost 200 % in pieces. < ... >

The trend for the enthusiasm of Russians with espionage is also shown by the service data for searching for information about users of Yandex Wordstat : in February, the number of requests of the word "spy" reached 1.4 million, increasing from 810 thousand for the same period last year. "