The Ministry of Justice recognized Nasiliya.net as a “foreign agent”

The Ministry of Justice has recognized Violence.net, a center that helps victims of domestic violence, as a "foreign agent." This is reported by the head of the organization Anna Rivina.

“I’ll put it this way: 95% of us were sent for a bill against violence, and 5% for LGBT propaganda,” says Rivina. She also published a fragment from the act of the Ministry of Justice, in which her interview with Forbes is given. In it, Rivina argues that if the problem of domestic violence were solved in Russia, then there would be no need for the Violence.No Center.

The Ministry of Justice began checking the center in early December. At that time, a representative of the ministry, in a conversation with Kommersant, explained that the reason for the check was that the organization had not filed an application to be included in the register of foreign agents.

Violence.net employees were obliged to prepare documents related to financial activities, public events, media mentions, agreements between the Center and partners and so on in less than two weeks.

• In early December, the prosecutor's office came with a surprise check to the Memorial Human Rights Center. The subject of the audit was the implementation of the law on the activities of a non-profit organization entered in the register of foreign agents. The prosecutor's office then also demanded a huge set of documents related to the publications of "Memorial" and the speeches of its employees.
• were submitted to the State Duma and partially considered At the end of December , bills toughening the law on foreign agents . So, for repeated violation of reporting under this law, up to 5 years in prison will be threatened. According to the new clarifications, the status of a foreign agent can be obtained by an individual engaged in political activities and receiving money from abroad for this. Another draft law prohibits the dissemination of information from foreign agents in the media without a special mark.