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Boris Akunin during the presentation of the book “Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Items. Dialogues. Interviews”, in Moscow (Russia), January 20, 2011. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AP
In front of an audience of generals, senior officials and even the Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, gathered at the Russian Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Putin praised, Tuesday, December 19, the “consolidation of society” behind Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. However, this “consolidation” does not seem so complete since, in passing, the head of the Kremlin has, once once more, called into question a “fifth column”, “around which we constantly did pirouettes”, thus posing the threat of a new phase of repression. By way of illustration, the day before, the name of a Russian writer was associated for the first time with the qualification of “terrorist”.
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In exile in London where he has lived since 2014, Boris Akunin discovered his new status remotely. On Monday, Rosfinmonitoring, the federal financial intelligence agency, included him in the register of “terrorists and extremists”, which involves freezing his accounts. On Tuesday, police carried out a high-profile search of Zakharov’s publishing house, which distributes his works, and confiscated unsold copies. According to the pro-government online media Gazeta.ruhis publisher, Ast, and several bookstores had announced, on December 15, the withdrawal of the sale of all his books, following an investigation for “discrediting” the Russian army was opened once morest him.
Real name Grigori Shalvovitch Tchkhartishvili, born in Georgia in 1956 before moving to the Russian capital at the age of 2, Boris Akunin is a popular novelist in Russia. Historian of Japanese civilization, graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University, he is the author of numerous essays and historical detective novels, notably the Adventures of Erastus Fandorine (published in France by Presses de la Cité), a hero living in the Tsarist era, which gave rise to adaptations into plays and television series. He also wrote a History of Russiaa compilation in nine volumes which traces the developments of the country until the revolution of 1917.
“One more step towards totalitarianism”
Having left Russia following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, he has, from London where he has lived for ten years, taken a position on several occasions once morest the war in Ukraine. “Madness has wonhe wrote on the first day of the conflict, February 24, 2022, on Facebook. Russia is ruled by a mentally deranged dictator and, worst of all, she is obeying his paranoia. »
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