The Russian Ministry of Justice has added six more people to the register of media-foreign agents. This is stated on the website of the department.
The list included Ivan Dremin, known as the rapper Face, candidate of legal sciences and former lawyer Mark Feygin, who was deprived of this status in 2018, journalists Irina Borukhovich, Ekaterina Mayakovskaya, Andrey Filimonov, and Dmitry Dubrovsky, associate professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). .
Now there are 133 foreign media agents on the list, NSN specifies.
On April 5, a register of individuals acting as a foreign agent appeared in Russia. According to the law, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation enters into the list of individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent if it is revealed that the person, performing such functions, did not submit the necessary application, reminds Moskva 24. The basis for inclusion in the register are documents received from state authorities.
On April 1, the agency included blogger, historian and publicist Yevgeny Ponasenkov on the list of foreign agents. As the site kp.ru notes, he intends to challenge this decision in court.
Also on that day, the list was replenished by the founder of The Bell, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Anna Golubeva, Alla Konstantinova, Maria Borzunova, Murad Muradov, Irina Malkova and Viktor Vorobyov.
Prior to this, on March 4, Roskomnadzor explained that the blocking in Russia of the websites of a number of media outlets-foreign agents, as well as some other resources, is associated with their repeated distribution of fake publications about the special operation in Donbass.
On March 3, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia is facing information terrorism from the West. As emphasized in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as the Russian armed forces successfully carry out the operation in the Donbass, an increase in the number of fakes is noted.
The law on foreign agents was adopted in Russia in November 2017. In December 2020, it was amended to provide for a new concept – a foreign agent-individual. It can be recognized as a person conducting activities in the territory of the Russian Federation in foreign interests, receiving foreign funding.
