Writer Boris Akunin was made on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia for two months in the Russian Federation

The writer Gregory Chhartishvili, who writes under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, was previously included in the list of "extremists and terrorists" in the Russian Federation. Akunin left Russia in 2014. The Basman District Court of Moscow arrested the writer Boris Akunin in absentia (real name - Gregory Chhartishvili). He is suspected of public justification of terrorism (Article 205.

2) and public dissemination of deliberately false information about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Article 207. 3). Akunin was made on the international wanted list. Meduza writes about it, referring to the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction. Akunin lives outside Russia. He already commented on the news on his site, noting that he read the message "For a cup of coffee".

"But joke immediately because I thought of a thousand living people arrested not in absentia, but truly, about Russian political prisoners that this dull, evil car breaks life. Remember these people, please" , - he wrote. The term of the Akunin arrest will be calculated from the moment of its actual detention or transfer to the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Moscow courts said.

We will remind, Boris Akunin publicly opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The criminal case against him was initiated in December 2023. In the framework of the case, investigators came with a search at the Moscow Publishing House "Zakharov", which produces the books of the writer. Rosphinmonitoring has introduced the writer to the list of terrorists and extremists. In January, the Ministry of Justice declared Akunin a "foreign agent".

Against the background of persecution, AST publisher stopped publishing Akunin's books, and large bookstores suspended the sale of his works. In the central office of the Investigative Committee confirmed a criminal case against the writer Grigory Chchartishvili Akunin left Russia in 2014 and lives in London. He also has real estate in Spain and France. He opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, war and raised money for Ukrainian refugees.