Akaburs currently working on star channel 34 here: https://f95zone.to/threads/star-channel-34-ep-10-akabur.1391/yes, kinda. he's still an artist but he got into a big art college (i think in america) after getting out of his shit hole of a life in russia and apparently got a big time gig. he still dos the occasional porn piece and comic here and their but the best way to describe him is like the hentai artis batchu-u, he ant retired and hes still working but is it on porn, who the hell knows.
He has a patreon and discord that he posts weekly news updates on. No big secret what hes up to. As far as BHB goes, though, this was def a surprise for me. I used to be a smersh patron a loooooong time ago but gave up since there would be months of no news.