The case against the Eksmo publishing house under the article on “Propaganda” by LGBT because of the comic book “Golub Gennady” was received by the court

The Zelenograd court of Moscow received an administrative case against the Eksmo publishing house, instituted under the article on “Propaganda” by LGBTK+ (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). As follows from the card on the court’s website, the case was registered on December 19. Within the framework of this article, the publishing house faces a fine of up to 1 million rubles with a possible suspension of activities up to 90 days. The date of the meeting has not yet been scheduled.

The case against Eksmo was opened in November by the Moscow police. According to The Insider in the company, Eksmo was in the field of view of the security forces because of the comic book “Geneb Gennady” by the authorship of the Ukrainian artist working under the pseudonym Koro.

“Now all the books where there is any risk on this topic, we give for an examination and without it we do not print and do not buy rights,” said Exmo CEO Evgeny Kapyev in his Telegram channel.

In November, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, commenting on the initiation of administrative case, noted that the book “openly forms homosexual attitudes, although it has an age -free mark of 12+”. We are talking about one fragment from the comic book: “Sometimes instincts prevail over Gennady. Pigeons do not always distinguish between the floor of each other. Therefore, Gennady prefers to think that he is a pansexual. "

Web Commick "Golub Gennady" was released in 2016. Subsequently, the book of the same name was published. The book was published by the St. Petersburg Publishing House "Comfederation", which is part of the exmo holding. The last circulation in the Russian Federation was printed on January 21, 2022, before the start of the war in Ukraine. All customers were made a newsletter on the ban on sales, and the contract with the author and payment was terminated, Kapyev noted. On November 1, 2023, Comfederation Publishing House announced the termination of work.