You can't print a book until the bot says 'ok'. " An interview with the last Editor-in-Chief of Individualdom.
Individualdom publishing house, one of the most brilliant in Russia, was closed in September 2026. For the past year and a half, he's been in the news not only for his books, but also for the industry-subverting "publisher case," which resulted in three former employees of Individualdom and Popcorn Books receiving probation for distributing LGBTQ+ literature. The owner of both publishing houses, Aksem Holding, closed Popcorn Books almost immediately after the start of the business, and Indioum only recently.
In November it became known that the holding is launching a new publication that will replace Individuum with the same specialization in the study - "Pathways"; His staff included many of Ishii's editors. Alexei Kislav, who has been at the head of the editor since 2023, will not be involved in "Paths": he decided to resign from Ishi even before Eksmo informed the team that the publication was closing.
In his first interview after leaving his post, Kislev told Medusa how Individualdom, a previously independent publishing house, dissolved into Examo, what changed in their work with the arrests of their colleagues, and why they chose until recently to publish books in Russia, despite the tightening censorship.
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