Overview

• The city court registered prosecutors’ administrative suit targeting Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar by former St. Petersburg deputy Boris Vishnevsky, who is labeled a foreign agent in Russia.
• Prosecutors cite an expert report alleging the book portrays Russia as a fascistizing state, urges violent change to the constitutional order, incites hatred toward Russian Orthodox believers, and discusses territorial alienation.
• The examination, attributed to Herzen University experts, includes the claim that the author described the Russian Orthodox Church’s goal as obtaining property.
• According to the court press office’s account of the suit, the text says Russia would answer for the annexation of Crimea and suggests the peninsula could be returned to Ukraine by force.
• If the court designates the book as extremist, authorities could remove it from circulation and impose liability on those who distribute it.