The former editor-in-chief of Individuum Alexei Kislev gave Medusa a first interview after the publication was closed. About arrests of colleagues, censorship in Eksmo and bots checking books for "extremism".
On November 12, Eksmo Holding announced the establishment of a new publishing house, Tropi. His immediate plans are to publish unpublished books in Individualdom. The specialty of "Trops" is the same as its predecessor - non-fiction books. Ishii itself, which opened in 2015 as an independent publishing house and was acquired by Exam in 2023, ceased to exist in September - shortly after the verdict of its employees involved in the "book publishing affair" (all received four years of probation). The last editor-in-chief of the publication was Alexei Kislev, a theater critic and curator. Kislev told Medusa how Individualdom worked under conditions of war and censorship, how Exmo's relationship with the publisher changed after the criminal case, and why the editor-in-chief's responsibilities included reading edits from AI.
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