After exclusion from the register, publishers will not be able to publish books. The Goskomeleradio noted that the grounds for the termination of the evidence of the publisher of the books are the stop of the publisher’s activities (termination of the FLP or legal entity), the renewal of the certificate or its cancellation by a court decision. According to the regulator, according to the unified state registry, the activities of the Credo publishing house and the FLP, which it belongs, was discontinued.
The request of the EP in the Goskomeleradio was preceded by the investigation of Bihus.info. It spoke about the activities in Kyiv since 2014 of the Donetsk publishing house “Credo”, as well as the Baby Buk publishing house later, which had recently traded with the Russians.
Their owners are Gennady Rosenbaum and Vladimir Moiseenko. Both are registered as FLP with the type of activity “Books and Gazeta Trade” on the territory controlled by the “DPR” controlled in 2022 and 2025, respectively. In registration documents, they are recorded as citizens of the Russian Federation. Also, presumably, in 2017 in Russian Belgorod, they created the Fortuna publishing house, which was headed by Rosenbaum in 2022.
“Credo” and “Baby Buk” actively sold their products both on the largest trading floors on the Internet in Ukraine and on their analogues in the Russian Federation. As the journalists installed, Rosenbaum now, perhaps, lives in Moscow, and his partner Moiseenko, in his own words, lives in Germany. The latter in 2014 on the social network was advertised by the public “People’s Militia of Donbass” and published other messages indicating the support of the invaders.
Goskomeleradio reacted to the investigation of BIHUS.info. On April 30, a statement was published on the registrar’s website on the removal of products from sales in Ukraine, the owner of which is conducting a business in Russia. The regulator informed that he turned to retail chains with a proposal to respond to the situation and prevent the further sale of books of these publishers. Some markets independently initiated the extraction of these products from their networks.
“We consider it unacceptable to have the presence of children's literature on the Ukrainian book market, published by publishers, the owner of which cynically violates Ukrainian legislation and conducts business with an aggressor state,” the release says.
