Rosfinmonitoring added writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) to the “list of terrorists and extremists.” His name has an asterisk, which indicates that a criminal case has been opened against the historian under an article on terrorism.
At the same time, the writer, who has not lived in Russia since 2014, has not yet been added to the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs .
Akunin opposed the war in Ukraine from the first day of the invasion on February 24 and was one of the founders of the Real Russia Foundation, which raises money for Ukrainian refugees.
In the summer of 2022, due to the writer’s anti-war speeches, his books were removed from sale by the Moscow bookstore “Young Guard”. In addition, the writer reported that his name was removed from the posters of theaters that show performances based on his plays.
After pro-government pranksters Lexus and Vovan published a recording of a conversation with the writer on behalf of representatives of the Ukrainian authorities in December, Read-Gorod and Liters refused to distribute his books. State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev on SolovievLive called Akunin an enemy, and the pro-government movement “Call of the People” began writing complaints about him to law enforcement agencies.