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Russian author Boris Akunin designated a ‘foreign agent’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOne of Russia’s most popular novelists has been designated a foreign agent over his objections to...
Russia orders arrest of exiled writer Akunin in absentia over terrorism, spreading 'fake news' about...
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRussian authorities added Boris Akunin to the so-called "terrorist list" and announced in December...
A bestselling novelist was duped by pro-Putin prank callers. He now faces jail
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA Moscow court has ordered the arrest of a bestselling novelist living in London on charges of...
Russia adds author Boris Akunin to a register of extremists and opens a criminal case against him
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoRussian authorities on Monday added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili – known under the pen name Boris Akunin – to its register of “extremists and terrorists."
A Russian court orders the arrest of a bestselling writer over his support for Ukraine
Associated Press via AOL· 4 months agoA Moscow court ordered the arrest Tuesday of a bestselling detective novelist and dissident on...
Russia adds Ukraine's military intelligence chief, Navy, Air Force commanders to 'terrorist' list
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOthers included on the list of "terrorists and extremists" include three of jailed opposition...
Russians embrace hope amid despair as Alexei Navalny says his final goodbye
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoRussians have seen many images of Alexei Navalny — a firebrand protest leader with a bullhorn. A...
Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov Calls Putin's Russia the 'World of Fear' as President Silences...
People via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“It is our world that will live on despite all your bans, and it is your Russia that will die from...
This Russian Gay Couple Hopes Their Wedding Will Help Change Minds
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoXenia Baranova/Courtesy Mikhail Zygar and Jean-Michel ShcherbakTall and handsome, they walked hand...
As a fifth term for Vladimir Putin looms, Russia is stepping up its war on its own people
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPowerful dissident voices are becoming a rarity in Russia, where opponents to President Putin and...