The Zakharov publishing house, which publishes Akunin*, was searched by the Investigative Committee

MOSCOW, December 19 The Zakharov publishing house reported that they were being searched.
“The Investigative Committee came to the Zakharov publishing house with a search. Nothing is clear yet,” says a message on the publishing house’s Telegram channel.
Publishing house «Zakharov» was created on March 1, 1998. The main series of the publishing house is “Biographies and Memoirs”, in which more than three hundred books have already been published: memoirs, diaries, notebooks and biographies of famous people. In addition, «Zakharov» publishes fiction, including works by the writer Boris Akunin*(included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, a case has been opened against him due to fakes about the RF Armed Forces and public justification of terrorism ).

Akunin's books*are still available on the publisher's website.

Earlier, the publishing house «AST» and the book chain «Chitai-gorod — Bukvoed» announced the suspension of the publication and sales of books by writers Boris Akunin* and Dmitry Bykov** (recognized as a foreign agent) .
* Included in the list of terrorists and extremists
** An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent in Russia.