Russian police have raided Eksmo, the country's largest book publisher, seizing thousands of books and detaining its chief executive, Yevgeny Kapiev, for questioning on suspicion of disseminating "homosexual propaganda." Several other senior executives were also interrogated as part of a criminal extremism case linked to the publication of books with LGBT themes, including titles released by Eksmo's Popcorn Books subsidiary. The raid reflects Russia's intensifying crackdown on LGBT expression since the Supreme Court designated the "international LGBT movement" as extremist in 2023, part of a broader Kremlin push for "traditional values" that has accelerated since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.