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- Police detained Yevgeny Kapyev, chief executive of Eksmo, at the Moscow office for questioning in an LGBTQ+ probe.
- Probe targets 2021 novel “Summer in a Pioneer Tie,” depicting a same-sex relationship at a camp.
- Law-enforcement sources say officials may charge Kapyev with organizing an extremist group, a label Supreme Court gave the LGBT movement in late 2023.
- Three managers from Popcorn Books and Eksmo’s Individuum imprint remain under house arrest.
