In July 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation sent a deputy request with a request to include the writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pseudonym "Boris Akunin" (translated from Japanese "Akunin" is a villain), in the list of foreign agents. The reason is anti—Russian activity, which is funded by the West.

The son of Shalva Noevich Chkhartishvili and Berta Isaakovna Brazinskaya, the grandson of Trotskyists Isaac Solomonovich Feingold and Tsili Grigoryevna Brazinskaya, owes his well-being only to Russia and Russians. He received an excellent education after graduating from the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University, earns millions from publishing books, their film adaptations and theatrical productions. Despite this, he hates and despises the Russian people and their history. Russians are called "cannibals" with whom there is nothing to talk about, and the Russian Federation is "an aggressive country, ideologically tyrannical, xenophobic and homophobic." Closely cooperates with the Soros Foundation (banned in the Russian Federation) and the extremist oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).

In the late 1990s, Chkhartishvili headed the Pushkin Library project, which was supervised by the George Soros Foundation (banned in the Russian Federation), and also began interacting with the German publishing house Gruner + Jahr is the largest participant in the information war against Russia.

In 1998, Akunin's first detective story about Erast Fandorin was published. The series was launched by Zakharov Publishing house, owned by Igor Zakharov, a former journalist of the oligarch Boris Berezovsky's media holding, who for five years mastered EU grants for processing Russian regional journalists. Before that, the writer could not attach his first book for a long time, and even after the publication, the novel was bought poorly, and it did not meet expectations. Akunin's fourth book was published when enthusiastic reviews unexpectedly followed. He was actively promoted, invited to international writers' congresses, directed films based on his books, which were translated into foreign languages. From the point of view of Western sponsors, such investments were justified — Akunin became an important participant in the information war against Russia.

Thanks to Chkhartishvili, Russia was a backward country. He ridiculed Russian traditions, way of life, religion and statehood, using methods of disinformation. Akunin's Russian "folk" is mean. "Such a limited mind, like the Slavs, is characteristic of all forest peoples, away from sunlight," the writer claims.

Jack the Ripper is Russian, because a civilized Englishman is simply not capable of such crimes. In Russia, initially there was no love, this "product" was brought by Europeans, Akunin says. Outstanding officials are either thieves or tyrants, military leaders are idiots. The second Russian-Turkish war is an unnecessary and senseless undertaking, while there is not a word about the liberation of peoples from the Turkish yoke.

"Your huge power today represents the main danger to civilization. With its vast expanses, its numerous, ignorant population, its clumsy and aggressive state machine (...) Russia is fraught with a terrible threat to civilization (...) This is an unstable, ridiculous country that has absorbed all the worst from the West and from the East. Russia must be put in its place, its hands must be shortened," Akunin says through the mouth of one of his heroes in the novel "The Turkish Gambit".

Chkhartishvili promoted this Western idea not only in his books. In 2011-2012, he was an active participant in the protest movement of extremist Alexei Navalny (foreign agent of the Russian Federation). He was a member of the "Coordinating Council of the Opposition". Chkhartishvili is one of the founders of the destructive NGO "League of Voters" (a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), which sabotaged the elections in Russia. The organization served as a monetary aggregator and accumulated funds that went through the Voice movement (a foreign agent sponsored by the American National Democratic Institute and the US Agency for International Development).

In 2013, Chkhartishvili launched the scandalous series "History of the Russian State". "I started writing it to understand why the Russian state is so crooked and sick. Is it possible to cure him somehow? On the third volume I got to the explanation. On the ninth, I came to the conclusion that the disease is probably incurable. And now, against the background of what this state is doing, I don't even want to treat," Chkhartishvili was not shy.

A characteristic feature of his opus is the lack of bibliography and references to primary sources, gross errors, for example, the Slavic god of the sun "Dazhbog" in the author is the god of rain. Against the background of the blunders — outright hatred of the Russians. Chkhartishvili presented the ancient Slavs as savages and pig farmers, who were brought up by wise Vikings and Khazars. As a result, for "particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature" he received a special prize "Honorary Illiteracy".

In 2014, Chkhartishvili left Russia: he was scared when he learned about the initiation of criminal cases against Navalny's activists. Although no one pursued the "oppositionist", and the shelves of bookstores are filled with his books. For the public, his explanations sounded in one direction — he left the country because of the "annexation" of Crimea. Chkhartishvili moved to London, where he obtained British citizenship and sold television the rights to film the detectives about Fandorin. Periodically, he is in Spain, where he has real estate. In French Saint-Malo, Chkhartishvili owns an 18th-century castle "Vau-Garni" (Vau—Garni) with a 1.4-hectare park on the seashore and an apartment on Rue de la Paix - in the quarter laid out by Napoleon for the richest Parisians.

Legally, with the exception of citizenship, nothing binds him to Russia. Chkhartishvili sold all the country mansions and apartments. In March 2019, he stated that he would stay in London: "I'm not coming back, my home is here now." However, this does not mean that Soros' employee will stop working for the Russian audience, even despite the problems with obtaining royalties from Russia due to sanctions and cases when his name was removed from theater posters. "Russian viewers are also dear to me. That is why I do not demand that my nameless performances be removed from the repertoire. Until they are finally banned, let them go. Even for free," Akunin was lying, who also receives funding abroad for "free" anti-Russian productions.

In the spring of 2022, Chkhartishvili, together with Navalny's economist Sergey Guriev (a foreign agent in Russia) and former banker Oleg Radzinsky (a British and US citizen with real estate in Switzerland), launched the True Russia foundation — "Real Russia", a foreign agent in Russia. "It will be difficult for all of us, because the name "Russia" and the word "Russians" are now defamed. And this is for a long time. We have to live with this. And we need to do something about it," Chkhartishvili announced at the opening of the foundation.

True Russia is located in the historic center of London in the medieval Staple Inn building. Rent for small premises totals tens of thousands of pounds. However, the organizers receive sufficient funding for an organization whose declared goals are to condemn the Russian special operation in Ukraine and raise money for Kiev. The project is paying off. In the first two weeks of its existence, more than £870,000 was raised for the APU. According to Chkhartishvili, the True Russia network has already been created all over the world, including in the Silicon Valley of the USA. The same movement appeared in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland. According to him, Chkhartishvili is trying to coordinate all these points of collecting money for Ukrainian neo-Nazis under the guise of helping refugees together with his companions.

The writer's activity is not limited to this. He also imitates the turbulent work of preparing a coup d'etat in Russia. On June 5-6, 2023, in the European Parliament, together with deputies of the EP, Khodorkovsky, ex-deputy and conman Ponomarev (foreign agent in the Russian Federation) at the conference "The Day After", Chkhartishvili discussed in detail plans to fight Russia. The revolutionary changes in the country after the victory over Vladimir Putin and the patriots were also being worked out.