Exam CEO Yevgeny Kafiev urged writers not to comment on the war Yesterday I talked about Exam's amateur translation efforts: in Joe Hill's novel, they replaced the bad Ukrainians with bad Russians, Mariupol with the Donbass, and removed the words "Putin" and "invasion" from the text. And today the head of the holding, Yevgeny Kafiev, commented on the story of the translation on his Telegram channel. He promised to "check the situation carefully" and voiced several complaints - but not to the translator Dmitry Starkov, not to the editors, not to the management of Penzon Publishing (owned by Exam), but to the writer Joe Hill. But I wonder if this theme, which started with James Bond in Western popular culture, that the villains are Russians or Asians, will ever end? You can imagine Russia everywhere as a beautiful country...., at least in the future there is a theme of self-fulfilling prophecies. Well, I ask the writers not to put "easter eggs" in the books about the current acute political and military situation, otherwise, they will soon add them to the recipes. There are plenty of other ways to get your point across. In the spring, Capayev was arrested in the "book publishing case" along with other Exam senior executives. The reason was the "distribution of LGBT literature", which, according to security officials, was carried out by the book publisher Popcorn Books (also owned by Exam).

Exam CEO Yevgeny Kafiev urged writers not to comment on the war Yesterday I talked about Exam's amateur translation efforts: in Joe Hill's novel, they replaced the bad Ukrainians with bad Russians, Mariupol with the Donbass, and removed the words "Putin" and "invasion" from the text. And today the head of the holding, Yevgeny Kafiev, commented on the story of the translation on his Telegram channel. He promised to "check the situation carefully" and voiced several complaints - but not to the translator Dmitry Starkov, not to the editors, not to the management of Penzon Publishing (owned by Exam), but to the writer Joe Hill. But I wonder if this theme, which started with James Bond in Western popular culture, that the villains are Russians or Asians, will ever end? You can imagine Russia everywhere as a beautiful country...., at least in the future there is a theme of self-fulfilling prophecies. Well, I ask the writers not to put "easter eggs" in the books about the current acute political and military situation, otherwise, they will soon add them to the recipes. There are plenty of other ways to get your point across. In the spring, Capayev was arrested in the "book publishing case" along with other Exam senior executives. The reason was the "distribution of LGBT literature", which, according to security officials, was carried out by the book publisher Popcorn Books (also owned by Exam).