Books Akunin and Bykov will stop selling in Russia

AST Publishing House, a network of bookstores “Read Gorod” and the Litre ”service suspended the release and sale of writers Dmitry Bykov and Boris Akunin after their conversation with the prahnes of Lexus and Vova, who communicated with writers on behalf of representatives of the Ukrainian administration. After that, a denunciation of the Investigative Committee was written on Akunin and Bykov, and Gurulev called Akunin a “enemy” deputy. North Realiy tells what is known.

Surgery of the release and sale of books

On December 15, one of the largest Russian publishing houses AST stated that it was suspended the distribution of writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov. The statement on behalf of the general director of the publishing house Pavel Grishkov says that the "public statements of writers" "caused a wide public resonance" and "require legal assessment."

Next, the network of bookstores "Read Gorod-Bukvoed" said that sales of books by Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov.

"The direct seizure of circulations from the shelves will take a certain time. The decision is due to the recent statements of writers who received wide publicity in the media. On our part, a request to the publishing house and independent lawyers for a legal assessment of the situation was sent on our part," the statement said .

Also about the suspension of the sale of books by writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov, the book service "Liters" said.

"The users who have purchased books until this time will remain in your personal account. In Liters Subscription and MyBook, users will also not be able to add writers' books to themselves since the same time, they will not see them in the search," the message says .

Prank of writers

In December 2023, the prankers of Lexus and Vovan, acting from pro -government positions, published telephone conversations with Bykov and Akunin. Bykov, they introduced himself as head of the office of President Vladimir Zelensky Andrei Ermak, Akunin - ex -minister of culture of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko. In conversations with them, writers confirmed their anti -war position, expressed support to Ukraine and condemned the Russian authorities. In particular, Akunin said that he was collecting funds to help Ukraine, and Bykov noted that he was offended when they “kill Russians,” but he has no complaints about the Ukrainian authorities.

After the publication of fragments of conversations, the Prochrevsky media and telegram channels accused the writers of "betrayal." Bykov wrote on Facebook about the conversation: "He only repeated what I say always." Akunin did not comment on a conversation with prankers.

Reaction "patriots" and deputy

After the publication of the video with Prank Akunin, the Call of the People, the Call of the People, turned to the Investigative Committee, Prosecutor General, FSB and Ministry of Justice with a request to recognize the writer to recognize his statements for extremism and justification of terrorism, as well as "prohibit the sale of Akunin literature and close his earnings in the Russian Federation."

On December 14, State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev on the air of the program “Full contact” of the Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov called the writer Boris Akunin the “enemy” and stated that he “should be destroyed”.

"A person who wishes to defeat his country in full, who wants to kill a Russian person, he must be destroyed. He should not be in this world. Only in this way, our country will survive," Gurulev said.

Akunin and Bykov reaction

Dmitry Bykov in the commentary of RBC said that the AST publishing house did not notify him of the suspension of books.

“But I am grateful to him for the fact that it continued to publish me for two years after leaving. Usually-at least in the USSR-emigrants stopped printing right away. Nothing else happens, nothing else could be, I never lived on book fees, earning journalism and pedagogy. In this sense, nothing has changed, and whoever wants to read me will be read as before in the early 1980s. They read Aksenova and sorry for the flattering analogy.

Boris Akunin wrote in his telegram channel that he did not plan to comment on Prank (he called him a provocation) of Lexus and Vovan. At the same time, he emphasized that in a conversation with them "he said the same thing that he speaks and writes publicly." The writer suggested that the books preparing for the exit will not be published in Russia.

“Well, then these books will be published somewhere in the territory of freedom. And you can buy them electronically on my author’s website Babook. Thanks to the Putinoids for advertising.
Dear Russian readers, if we say goodbye, then for a while - until you remain under the rule of the dictatorship, ”he wrote.

• Both writers since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are actively publicly opposing him. Akunin, in particular, became the co -founder of the anti -war organization "Real Russia".
• Dmitry Bykov was included in the Russian authorities in the register of the so -called foreign agents. The name Akunin, according to the Ministry of Culture claims, was removed from the posters of theaters, where there were performances on his books. At the same time, pro -Kremlin and wire bloggers often expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the books of Akunin and Bykov continue to be sold in Russia.