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The Kremlin advised contacting the Ministry of Justice due to the statuses of foreign agents
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised to contact the Ministry of Justice for explanations why the department recognizes the publication or journalists with foreign agents.
“We cannot be an arbiter in this case. In this case, only the court can be an arbiter,” Peskov quotes “ Interfax ” quotes. Journalists asked the spokeswoman for why the legal entities of Rosbalt and Republic publications were recognized by the media-foreign agents without special explanations.
The Ministry of Justice recognized in mid -October legal entities of Rosbalt and Republic Foreign Agents.
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- The Ministry of Justice began to introduce Russian citizens to a new register of individuals in late 2020. The first five were human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, activist Daria Apakhonchich, editor -in -chief of the Pskov province Denis Kamalyagin, Radio Journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya and cooperating with the North. Realia Sergey Markelov.
- Since 2021, the Ministry of Justice has introduced dozens of Russian journalists from different publications to the register, including the editor-in-chief of Project (publication recognized as undesirable in Russia) Roman Badanin, the chief editor of “important stories” (the publication included in the register of media-foreign agents) Roman Anin, as well as journalists Radio Liberty, Elizaveta Maetnaya, Katerina Klepikovskaya, Elenau Solovyeva And Tatyana Voltskaya.
- Over the past six months, the list of foreign agents has also increased. It included "important stories", The Insider, Vtimes.io, "Medusa", "The First Anti -Corruption Media", the Rain, Mediazone TV channel. Now in the list of "foreign -agents" 88 positions, these are 56 journalists and 32 organizations and the media.