The Moscow-based Zakharov Publishing House, which has published books by writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin since the 1990s, said on December 19 that police had searched its offices.
Russia's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party on December 19 proposed its leader, lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, as a candidate in the presidential election scheduled for March 17.
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