The Ministry of Justice declared Alexander Rodnyansky and Mikhail Zygar foreign agents
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Ministry of Justice introduced to the list of natural persons-foreign agents of the film producer Alexander Rodnyansky. Also on the list were Ruslan Gabbasov, Semyon Kochkin, Ilya Shumanov, ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, journalists Tatyana Shadrina (Felgenhauer) and Alexander Plushev, Ekaterina Bosov, the widow of businessman Dmitry Bosov. To the register of media-foreign agents introduced journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar.
Mr. Gabbasov is a columnist for Idel.Realii (recognized as a foreign media agent), Mr. Kochkin is the former head of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Cheboksary (Navalny’s headquarters are recognized as extremist organizations in the Russian Federation and banned). Mr. Shumanov heads Transparency International Russia (recognized as an NGO-foreign agent).
According to the Ministry of Justice, almost all individuals included in the list of foreign agents carry out political activities at the expense of funds from Ukraine.
Earlier in the register of foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent, was included limited liability company “Inoveshchenie”. It was founded by an individual foreign agent, political scientist Valery Soloviev.
The list of natural persons-foreign agents has been maintained since April 2022, now there are 43 people in it. The register of media-foreign agents was opened in 2017, at the moment there are 195 positions in it.
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