“On May 13, the court granted the petition of the investigation and chose a measure of restraint in respect of Glukhovsky in the form of detention for a period of 2 months from the moment of detention in Russia or extradition,” RIA Novosti quoted the press service of the court as saying.

The writer is charged with Part 2 of Art.

207.3 of the Criminal Code of Russia (public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the RF Armed Forces), which provides for imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years.

Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put the writer Dmitry Glukhovsky on the wanted list under an article of the Criminal Code.