A Moscow court ordered the arrest on Feb. 6 of Boris Akunin, a popular Russian writer who has lived in exile since 2014, over his criticisms of the full-scale war on Ukraine, which the government deemed to be in violation of laws regulating speech about the war. Akunin, one of the most popular living Russian writers, was born in Soviet Georgia as Grigori Chkhartishvili. He is mostly known under his pen name, Boris Akunin, and has gained a significant following for his historical fiction and detective novels. Akunin has lived in London since 2014, but his open disagreements with Russian Preside…
