The Ministry of Justice plans to oblige foreign agents to indicate their OGRN and domain name in their reports

The Russian Ministry of Justice has published a draft order, which proposes to supplement the reporting form for foreign agents with information about the main state registration number (OGRN), if they have one, the domain name of their information resource, the serial number in the register of foreign agents and the period for which the form is provided . Project initiative was published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. They paid attention to him “Vedomosti”.

The closing date for discussion of the project is February 21. Based on the order of the Ministry of Justice dated November 29, 2022, foreign agents are required to report to the department on their activities. In particular, once every six months they must provide the Ministry of Justice with information on the composition of governing bodies, founders and employees; every quarter – information about foreign sources and changes in the above information; annually – information on the provision of an audit report to the state information resource for financial statements.

February 15 to the State Duma was A bill has been introduced prohibiting Russians and Russian companies from placing advertisements on the resources of foreign agents. According to the initiative, it is also proposed to ban advertising of the resources of foreign agents themselves. In addition, the document contains a ban on Russian companies officially advertising on banned social networks.

Read more in the Kommersant article. “Foreign agents do not need advertising”.

Erdni Kagaltynov