For years, the Russian bestselling author Dmitry Glukhovsky has harshly criticized the Kremlin. Moscow is now putting the writer out for a wanted manhunt, presumably for insulting the Russian army. But Glukhovsky doesn't want to back down - quite the opposite.
Russia has put Dmitry Glukhovsky, a writer critical of the Kremlin, on a national wanted list. The 42-year-old is wanted for a violation of the Russian Criminal Code, the Russian state agency TASS reported. Glukhovsky said he is currently not in Moscow.
He assumes that he is wanted for insulting the Russian army. "I'm ready to repeat everything I said: stop the war! Admit that this is a war against a whole people. And stop it!" he said, referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The author of the "Metro" trilogy, who mainly lives abroad and also speaks German, has been a harsh critic of the Russian political system for years. After the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, he repeatedly condemned the invasion on social networks, pointed out the losses in the Russian armed forces and reported on the murder of Ukrainian civilians.
"The most important structural problem of the Russian political system is that it is made up of thieving dumbass, living on the understanding of crooks, competing with each other in cannibalistic fervour, carrying out the orders of a remote, hypocritical old man with a personal crisis." , he wrote on Twitter in May. In addition to his literary work, Glukhovsky repeatedly commented on daily politics.
In October, Glukhovsky ("The Post", "Text") complained about a "culture of lies and prohibitions" in Russia. There is not only mendacious propaganda in Russia that completely distorts facts and truths. "The power apparatus is trying to ban everything that is alive and genuine in social and cultural life in Russia."
