1. Sergei Lukyanenko had started writing as a student, and in 1992 had just started making money from it.
14 Facts About Sergei Lukyanenko
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Sergei Lukyanenko started writing in the mid-1980s, and his first publication, the short story "Misconduct", followed soon in 1988.
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Sergei Lukyanenko, though, fared somewhat better than the others, already having made something of a name in Russian science fiction circles.
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Sergei Lukyanenko released a number of sequels to the Watch series.
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Until 2006 relatively few of Sergei Lukyanenko's works had been released outside of Russia, mostly in Baltic states, Bulgaria and Poland, countries with traditionally strong ties with Russian literature.
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Sergei Lukyanenko kept a blog at LiveJournal, posting both personal and public information or snippets of a book in progress.
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On his website and his blog, Sergei Lukyanenko has repeatedly spoken out against the international adoption of Russian orphans, especially by Americans.
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Sergei Lukyanenko started another blog a few days later, promising firmer moderation policies.
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Sergei Lukyanenko welcomed the Dima Yakovlev Law banning the international adoption of children from Russia in response to the US Magnitsky Act.
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Sergei Lukyanenko, having Ukrainian ancestry himself, threatened authors supporting the Euromaidan that he would make every effort to prevent their books being published in Russia.
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Sergei Lukyanenko forbade translation of his books into the Ukrainian language.
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Sergei Lukyanenko welcomed the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.
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In February 2014 Sergei Lukyanenko announced boycott of Denmark because of the culling of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo.
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On 28 February 2022, Sergei Lukyanenko was the leading signatory of a public letter with a few other authors supporting Russian military invasion of Ukraine launched four days earlier.