Books by Alexey Salnikov and Denis Dragunsky are being removed from Russian stores.

AST Publishing House fears that the novel Salnikova "Indirectly" and in four books Dragunsky maybe "drug and LGBT propaganda."

The text "Vicariously" describes an alternative reality where poetry becomes more than just text, but addictive. Moreover, one of the book's characters is a lesbian.

“Although everyone understands that people learn about drugs not from books, and compared to the mass media, fiction is a drop in the ocean, — Salnikov commented in a conversation with 66.ru. "Publishers are now forced not only to check already published texts, but also to predict what might be banned tomorrow."

Denis Dragunsky is facing a similar ban: his novels and short stories contain explicit scenes and may contain "LGBT episodes."

After the war began in Russia, many "undesirable" books began disappearing from shelves. For example, the book "It" was banned or withdrawn from sale for various reasons. Stephen King, Summer in a Pioneer Tie Malisova и Silvanova, Children from the Storage Room Ryu Murakami and even "Bad Advice" Grigory Oster, which they demanded to be removed, allegedly because of the illustrations.

Dozens of other books were also either completely removed from sale or banned from libraries.