The Russian bookstores Moskva, Biblio-Globus and Molodaya Gvardiya refused to sell books by the writer Viktor Shenderovich. He himself announced this on his Facebook page.
According to Shenderovich, the stores have withdrawn from sale his new book – a collection of prose "Among the Hyenas". In Moscow, the writer was told that this was due to accusations of extremism: “And now, it turns out, I am not only a foreign agent, but also an extremist. At least, that's what the dearest director of the Moskva store says, and, gosh, she knows the lists.
On December 30, 2021, the Ministry of Justice included Shenderovich in the register of “media outlets acting as a foreign agent.” After that, he left Russia, saying that his departure was also connected with a possible criminal case, which Yevgeny Prigozhin, "Putin's cook", asked to bring against him. It is based on Shenderovich's statements on Ekho Moskvy, allegedly containing "information that does not correspond to reality, discrediting his [Prigozhin's] good name, honor, dignity and business reputation."
In June, the Young Guard store withdrew all the books of the writer Boris Akunin from sale. Earlier, he opposed the war with Ukraine and launched the Real Russia project to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. The writer left Russia in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea.