In Russia, the first case of non-fulfillment of the duties of a foreign agent was opened

Pavel Chikov reported on the first case in Russia of non-fulfillment of the duties of a foreign agent, Tver activist Artem Vazhenkov became a person involved in the case, who was included in the register of foreign agents in the fall of 2021. He was fined twice for unmarking posts. Now the activist is not in Russia

The first case of non-fulfillment of duties of a foreign agent was opened in Russia

Artem Vazhenkov

The Department of the IC for the Tver region has opened the first case in Russia under Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code (violation of the procedure for the activities of a foreign agent committed by a person after being brought to administrative responsibility for non-fulfillment of the duties of a foreign agent), lawyer Pavel Chikov said in his telegram channel. Under this article, he faces up to two years in prison.

The person involved was Tver activist, presenter of the Avtozak LIVE channel Artem Vazhenkov, whom the Ministry of Justice added to the register of foreign agents in September 2021. Dmitry Kachurin, the activist’s lawyer, got acquainted with the resolution. Vazhenkov collaborated with “The Voice” (also recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent), along with him, 19 more people associated with the movement were included in the list.

RBC turned for comment to the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Tver region and to Dmitry Kachurin.

In March 2022, Vazhenkov was fined 10 thousand rubles for the absence of labeling in an Instagram post (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist in Russia and banned), and in August – 50 thousand rubles for unmarking posts in Telegram. Now Vazhenkov is not in Russia. He stated that the initiation of a criminal case did not come as a surprise to him. According to the activist, this is due, among other things, to the fact that he is engaged in covering such a shameful phenomenon as foreign agents in Russia.

In the spring, the activist filed a complaint against his inclusion in the register of foreign media agents in the ECHR, the court registered it in August (since mid-September, Russia has ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), thus, it also withdrew from the jurisdiction of the ECHR).

President Vladimir Putin approved amendments to Article 330.1 clarifying the norms on criminal liability for violation of the legislation on foreign agents at the end of December. Chikov notes that the only criminal case under the old version of this article was opened in 2016 against the head of the human rights organization “Union of Women of the Don” Valentina Cherevatenko (the organization was added to the register in 2015), but later it was discontinued without finding the corpus delicti.

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