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“Terrorist and extremist”, these are the phrases utilized by Moscow to now designate the author, novelist, historian and playwright Boris Akunin, whose actual identify is Grigori Tchkhartishvili, showing, since Monday December 18, on the blacklist of anti-Putin Russian writers . The Zakharov publishing home, which publishes it, was raided on Tuesday with a view to seizing the entire writer’s books discovered there. Akounine is without doubt one of the hottest authors in his native nation and, past borders, notably in France, for his collection of historic detective novels: The Adventures of Erastus Fandorineprinted by Presses de la cite.

From London, the place he lives in exile after leaving Russia in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea, the Georgian-born author…