Minust added Smolyaninov, Troitsky and former ROC cleric Kirsanov to the register of foreign agents. Lawyer Anatoly Fursov, former cleric of the Trinity Church of the village of Chashnikovo Sergey Kirsanov and TENES LLC were also included in the updated register.
Artur Smolyaninov
The Ministry of Justice of Russia has added actor Artur Smolyaninov and journalist Artemy Troitsky to the register of foreign agents, follows from the list on the agency’s website.
Also included in the registry are:
- Anatoly Fursov— Lawyer, Managing Partner of the Bar Association «Dombrovitsky & Partners»
- Sergey Ukhov – ex-coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Perm (in 2021, the court recognized Navalny’s headquarters as extremist organizations and banned them);
- Alexander Shelest is a Ukrainian journalist;
- Sergey Kirsanov— former cleric of the Trinity Church of the village of Chashnikovo, Solnechnogorsk district, dismissed from office in February 2021;
- TENES LLC is among the founders of the company, including journalists Anton Dolin and Mikhail Zygar (both recognized as foreign agents). By law, those who have entered the register of foreign agents must open a legal entity within a month after being included in the list, the legal entity is used for reporting.
Artur Smolyaninov has repeatedly criticized Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and after his interview with Novaya Gazeta. Europe” (blocked by Roskomnadzor), in which he spoke about hatred for “people on the other side of the front”, noting that he fought on the side of Kiev, the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case against the actor.
Music critic, former musician Artemiy Troitsky left Russia back in 2014. He also repeatedly criticized the policy of the Russian authorities and spoke out against conducting a special operation in Ukraine.
Sergey Ukhov linked the entry into the register of foreign agents with his work on the Perm 36.6 channel, which he calls the only media in the region that has taken a tough anti-war position. Ukhov noted that the channel publishes data on the dead and supports relatives of the mobilized. He intends to appeal the inclusion in the list.
The Ministry of Justice last updated the register of foreign agents on December 23, 2022. Then journalist Anastasia Zhvik, journalist Andrey Kolesnikov, human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina and journalist Gleb Pyanykh got into it, among others.
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The concept of “foreign agent” was first introduced into Russian legislation in 2012. At first, it applied only to NGOs engaged in political activities. The law on Foreign Media in Russia was adopted in 2017. In 2019, amendments were made to the legislation, which determined the possibility ofassignment of the status of a foreign agent to individuals and legal entities if they distribute or participate in the creation of information by foreign media and are financed in one form or another from abroad. By the end of 2020, the concept of unregistered public associations performing the functions of a foreign agent also appeared in the legislation.
The legislation contains a number of prohibitions and restrictions on persons involved from the lists of foreign agents. The messages and materials of the foreign media should be distributed on the territory of Russia with the appropriate labeling. The dissemination of information about the NGO-foreign agent, NGO-foreign agent, natural person-foreign agent should also be accompanied by labeling.
In addition, foreign agents cannot receive state funding when carrying out creative activities, teach and conduct educational activities among minors, produce information products for minors, as well as participate in the procurement of goods, works and services to meet state and municipal needs.
On December 1, 2022, the Ministry of Justice published a single list of foreign agents. At the same time, there were persons previously excluded from the register in it. Opposite the names of organizations in the list are their TIN and OGRN (the main state registration number), and the individual is mentioned with the date of birth. Now there are 520 people, media and organizations in the register.
In July 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which a foreign agent is a person who has received “support from abroad” or who is “under foreign influence” and engaged in political activities in Russia, purposefully collecting data in the field of military and military-technical activities of Russia or the distribution of messages and materials to an unlimited number of people.
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