Dmitry Zimin left Russia

The founder of the Dynasty Foundation Dmitry Zimin left Russia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the supervisor of the Higher School of Economics Evgeny Yasin.

"Zimin left Russia. How much, I do not know," Yasin said. He emphasized that Zimin made such a decision in connection with the recognition of the Foreign Agent Foundation. In which country is Zimin now is not specified.

The departure of Zimin was also confirmed by three sources of RBC. A source close to the leadership of the Dynasty said that the founder of the fund and his son and associate Boris were going to leave Russia before a meeting of the Council of Dynasty. The board of the fund should gather on June 8. It is expected to have a decision on the termination of the fund's activities. Zimin will participate in a meeting on the video.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva called Zimin’s departure a loss and shame for Russia.

On May 25, the Ministry of Justice included the Dynasty Foundation in the Register of Foreign Agents . At the same time, the fund does not exist for foreign money, but at the funds of its founder Dmitry Zimin, posted on foreign accounts.

The next day, Zimin said that he was stopping funding the fund . “Of course, I will not spend my personal money under the brand of an unknown foreign state,” he said. Zimin explained that he could change his decision, but only if the Ministry of Justice rescues the decision to recognize the "dynasty" by a foreign agent, and he will personally apologize.

For several days at the end of May, Russian teachers and scientists held a series of single pickets in front of the Dynasty in front of the Ministry of Justice of the Ministry of Justice.

On June 1, the Presidential Council for Human Rights apologized to Zimin and Yasin for the fact that their Dynasty and Liberal Mission funds are included in the register of foreign agents. The authors of the statement called them the true patriots of Russia, people with an impeccable reputation.

“From the first days of the existence of this very approximate and therefore the unlawful law on the so -called“ foreign agents ”, our advice is beating over its correction,” the statement says. “However, the shifts are minimal, and the register has already exceeded 60, including dozens of human rights, environmental and other socially oriented NPOs. The current example of defiantly absurd law enforcement is overwhelming our patience. We insist that the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation A.V. Konovalov cancel the decision of his deputy

On June 3, it became known that Zimin asks the organizers of the rally in support of science and education, which will be held on Saturday in Moscow, to exclude the issue of the fund from the agenda of the event . “Problems with science in Russia are systematic,” his son Boris explained the position of Zimin. “It is incorrect and unacceptable to reduce them to the problems of the“ dynasty ”and our family. System problems need to be solved systematically.”