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Russia on Friday declared the acclaimed novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya a “foreign agent” for opposing the war in Ukraine and allegedly promoting LGBTQ+ “propaganda.”
The 81-year-old literary icon, who lives in exile, began protesting the Kremlin’s authoritarian tendencies in the Soviet era and is a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin.
Ulitskaya “opposed the special military operation in Ukraine” and “carried out propaganda of LGBT relations,” Russia’s Justice Ministry gave as the reason for her listing.
Already a longtime favorite for the Nobel Prize in literature, she joins a long line of Russian cultural figures — including writer Boris Akunin — shunned by the Kremlin.
Russia applies the term “foreign agent” to people it sees as traitors and enemies of the state, and requires all those labeled to mark their publications with a warning.
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