The Ministry of Justice added The Insider and five journalists to the list of foreign agents

to the list of media outlets acting as foreign agents The Ministry of Justice added The Insider and five journalists . This was reported on the official website of the department.

Foreign agents recognized:

1. Mikhail Rubin (publication "Project");
2. Ilya Rozhdestvensky (Open Media publication);
3. Sofia Groysman (Rain TV channel);
4. Yulia Apukhtin (Proekt edition);
5. Aleksey Posternak (Radio Liberty publication).

On August 4 , Open Media reported that they had filed a lawsuit with the Zamoskvoretsky Court against the decision of the Ministry of Justice to grant them the status of a foreign media agent.

“This order is discriminatory, that is, it violates the constitutional principle of the equality of citizens, as well as the right to freedom to receive and disseminate information,” the newspaper writes.

The publication also asks the court to provide the documents that served as the basis for their inclusion in the list of foreign agents. According to Open Media, they were not notified in advance and that they had become foreign agents, they learned from a message on the department's website.

• On July 15, 2021, the Attorney General's Office declared undesirable the legal entity Project Media, Inc - registered in the United States. The Russian authorities believe that the investigative media outlet "Proekt" is related to this legal entity and therefore is an undesirable organization in Russia.
• The Insider journalists, in collaboration with other investigators, wrote a series of articles about the alleged poisoners of politicians Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza and writer Dmitry Bykov.
• Currently, there are already eighteen people in the register of media - foreign agents, in addition to the publications themselves. On July 15, . five Project journalists — Roman Badanin, Maria Zheleznova, Petr Manyakhin, Olga Churakova and Yulia Lukyanova, two Open Media journalists — Yulia Yarosh and Maxim Glikin, and Radio Liberty journalist Elizaveta Maetnaya were brought in
• In December 2020, Pskovskaya the first five people were added to the media register of foreign agents: Lev Ponomarev, head of the human rights movement For Human Rights, Lyudmila Savitskaya, a journalist for Radio Liberty and MBKh Media, Sergey Markelov, a 7×7 journalist, and editor-in-chief of province” Denis Kamalyagin and civil activist and actionist Daria Apakhonchich.