According to Mediazona, an administrative offense protocol related to "LGBT propaganda" has been submitted to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, concerning the publishing house "Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye" (NLO). The reasons for its issuance remain unclear, and the hearing date for the case has not yet been set.
On August 22, the BBC Russian Service reported that NLO had requested bookstores in Moscow and St. Petersburg to remove from sale the book "Infernal Feminism" by Swedish historian Per Faxneld. The publishing house explained that this was due to demands from the prosecutor's office and the initiation of an administrative case.
In July, the bookstore "Falanster" was fined 800,000 rubles, and its founder Boris Kupriyanov was fined 100,000 rubles on charges of "LGBT propaganda."
The basis for issuing the protocols in both cases was the sale of several publications: the novel "More Happy Than Not" by Adam Silvera, the book "The Fruit of Knowledge" by Liv Strömquist, the work "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by Emily M. Danforth, the study "Infernal Feminism" by Per Faxneld, and the comic "Fence, Volume 2" by C.S. Pacat. According to the conclusion of an unidentified "specialist," these texts were found to contain signs of propaganda of "non-traditional relationships and gender change."