The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had many impacts on the world and many from Russia itself are trying to speak out. One such person is Dmitri Glukhovsky, the author of the Metro series of books, who has been given ann eight-year prison sentence by a Russian court for speaking out against the invasion, on the grounds of spreading disinformation about the country’s armed forces. Glukhovsky is a former journalist who wrote the novel Metro 2033, which led to further books and a series of games that he has been an active part of the development of.
The conviction came as a result of posts on social media platforms by Glukhovsky that accused Russian soldiers of committing crimes during the country’s invasion of Ukraine that Russian courts deemed ‘fake information’ about the war according to the Associated Press. This is part of changes made to the country’s laws after the invasion started that allows the country to hand down heavy prison sentences of up to 15 years for any citizen who goes against the narrative Russia has produced about the invasion of Ukraine.
However, Glukhovsky was tried in absentia, because he does not currently live in Russia. Glukhovsky has been extremely critical of the Russian invasion, including saying the war on Ukraine ”unleashed by Putin is becoming more terrible and inhuman every day, and the pretexts under which it was started look more and more insignificant and false.”
