Russia has placed the popular detective novelist Grigory Chkhartishvili – known under the pen name Boris Akunin – on its register of “extremists and terrorists” for his criticism of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Since the Kremlin ordered Russian troops to march on Kyiv on 24 February last year, a crackdown on dissent has hit the arts and books by authors critical of Moscow have disappeared from bookshops in the country.
