Moscow places Russian writer Boris Akunin on list of “foreign agents”. Already accused of being a "terrorist and extremist", the novelist, now in exile, had described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an "absurd war" A criticism punishable by a prison sentence of 15 years.
Several hundred ordinary Russians have already been convicted under this article of the Criminal Code for almost two years. Akunin spoke out in 2014 against the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula before going into exile in London.