“NGO Development Center” in St. Petersburg was fined under the article on foreign agents

In St. Petersburg, the Center for the Development of Non-Commercial Organizations and its head Anna Orlova were fined under the article on the absence of a “foreign agent” marking (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this . writes The united press service of the city courts

The decision was made by the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg. He imposed a fine of 300,000 rubles on the NGO Development Center and 100,000 rubles on Anna Orlova. The protocol says that a certain citizen applied to Roskomnadzor. He convicted the NGO Development Center of the fact that the organization did not indicate the status of a foreign agent on social networks. Employees of Roskomnadzor drew up an act and went to court.

• At the end of December 2020, were submitted to the State Duma and partially considered draft laws 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, 2020, the list of media - "foreign agents" was replenished for the first time with the names of individuals. Three journalists were included in the list - Lyudmila Savitskaya, Sergey Markelov and Denis Kamalyagin, head of the Movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev and civil activist and actionist Daria Apakhonchich.