Roskomnadzor spoke about plans to initiate administrative cases against Radio Liberty

Roskomnadzor (RKN) plans to draw up 18 protocols in relation to the projects of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the head of the Russian Service of Radio Liberty. about this . writes The Interfax news agency

According to the agency, the federal service is going to initiate administrative cases under the article on violation of the law on foreign agents (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On December 29, the RKN published news on its website that “representatives of media-foreign agents” were summoned to draw up protocols, but without specifying which media. The next day, the press service of the RKN confirmed to Interfax that invitations to draw up protocols had been sent to Radio Liberty.

The head of the Russian service of Radio Liberty told the agency that he had indeed received notifications from the RKN.

• 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.
• On December 28, the list of media-“foreign agents” was replenished for the first time with the names of individuals.The list included three journalists - Lyudmila Savitskaya, Sergey Markelov and Denis Kamalyagin, head of the Movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev and civil activist and actionist Daria Apakhonchich.