OREANDA-NEWS  The state prosecution, during the debate of the parties in the 2nd Western District Military Court, requests that writer Boris Akunin* (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) be sentenced to 18 years in prison in absentia in the case of publicly justifying terrorism, facilitating terrorist activities and evading the duties of a foreign agent, RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.

"I ask you to recognize Chkhartishvili* To convict Grigory Shalvovich ... to impose a sentence of 18 years in prison with serving the first 4 years in prison, the rest of the term in a high-security colony," the prosecutor said.

She also demanded that the writer be fined 400 thousand rubles.

* An individual who performs the functions of a foreign agent in Russia is included in the list of terrorists and extremists.