The Moscow-based Zakharov Publishing House, which has published books by writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin since the 1990s, said on December 19 that police had searched its offices.
Russia's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party on December 19 proposed its leader, lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, as a candidate in the presidential election scheduled for March 17.
More than 1,000 students and teachers from 19 schools and universities in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, were evacuated on December 18 after reports on social media about bombs allegedly planted on the premises of the institutions.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Monday added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili – known under the pen name Boris Akunin – to its register of “extremists and
Polish truckers on December 18 resumed their blockade of the main crossing at the Ukrainian border, a week after it was lifted, Ukraine's border service said.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, added popular detective writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, to its list of terrorists and extremists without any explanation on December 18.
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