Metro writer put on Russian required listing for "discrediting" armed forces

WTF?! Dmitry Glukhovsky, the Russian science fiction writer who penned the Metro sequence and collaborated with 4A Games on the video clip activity variations, has been placed on Russia's preferred list for publicly criticizing the country's war with Ukraine.

Glukhovsky's Telegram write-up disclosed he has been accused of discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in a single of his Instagram posts. "I am prepared to repeat almost everything mentioned there: 'Stop the war! Acknowledge that this is a war versus an complete country and halt it!'" he wrote.

BBC Russia writes that Moscow's Basmanny district court purchased Glukhovsky's arrest in absentia on May well 13.

Days after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced a law that prohibited the spreading of "faux" news about what it has extended claimed is a "exclusive armed service operation" made to demilitarize and "denazify" Ukraine even though guarding its Russian speakers. Those convicted of breaking this legislation facial area up to 15 years in prison.

Reuters reports that Glukhovsky, who also worked as a journalist in Israel and included the 2nd Lebanon War in 2006, is the first big cultural figure to be positioned on the needed listing. He no more time resides in Russia.

Glukhovsky worked carefully with studio 4A Video games on the improvement of the Metro franchise. The Ukrainian firm, which is at the moment doing work on a new Metro activity, experienced currently relocated from the place to Malta back again in 2014 subsequent Russia's annexation of Crimea.

The impression of Russia's invasion has been considerably-achieving across the technology and gaming industries. From Taiwan proscribing chip exports to those people below 25 MHz and Google Russia filing for individual bankruptcy, to Euro Truck Simulator's Coronary heart of Russia DLC being canceled and Sherlock Holmes studio Frogwares relocating out of Kyiv, many thanks to a grant from Epic Video games.