Author of the Metro series novels, Dmitry Glukhovsky, has been sentenced to an eight-year prison team for spreading misinformation about the Russian army.
The news comes via an Associated Press report from some days ago, which mentions that Glukhovsky has been tried in absentia as he isn’t actually in Russia. According to the report, the author has been convicted for consciously spreading misinformation on social media about the Russian Armed Forces following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine back in February of last year. The author has been vocal ever since the start of the invasion. Back in April of 2022, after he already left Russia, the author wrote that the war “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.”
Earlier this year, Glukhovsky posted a message on Instagram, openly criticizing Russia’s leader and demanding that the Russian forces are being withdrawn from Ukraine: “Ukraine has been resisting Putin’s aggression for a year now,” the vocal author wrote on Instagram (thanks PCGamer). “As it was a year ago, I am quite convinced that this war is just as destructive for Russia and our people as it is lethal and destructive for the people of Ukraine I love.”
He continued, “I feel terribly sorry for all the human lives lost in this monstrous unjust war by a tyrant who just wanted to preserve power and make history. I still demand from the Russian authorities to immediately stop this senseless and futile anti-national war and to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine.”
In March of 2022, Glukhovsky wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: “Now we see with our own eyes how people are dehumanized before being destroyed: through mockery, through defamation, through the distortion of their words and motives, and the denial of their very capacity to feel and think as people”, he wrote. “We know how predators hide: the wolf pulls the skin off the sheep he has just killed and wears it.”
Back in October of 2022, following his ‘expressions, Glukhovsky was labeled as a “foreign agent” by the Russian justice ministry.
Dmitry Glukhovsky is known for writing the Metro 2033 novel and its sequels, including Metro 2034, Metro: Last Light, and Metro: 2035. Glukhovsky also helped out Ukrainian developer 4A Games with its game adaption of Metro 2033 and Last Light.
