The Ministry of Justice recognized the “foreign agents” of the rapper Face and the ex-advocate Mark Feigin

The Ministry of Justice of Russia recognized “six more people with foreign agents, among them rapper Face and former lawyer Mark Feigin, according to the website of the department.

The writer Andrei Filimonov, historian Dmitry Dubrovsky, a journalist of Novaya Gazeta Irina Borukhovich (Tumakova), Ideli. Reali Ekaterina Mayakovskaya, also fell into the register.

Also, the “foreign agent” was recognized by the Krasnoyarsk regional public organization of support and development of alternative educational technologies and intercultural communications “Interra”.

Andrei Filimonov in the editorial office said that several people have already "congratulated him on the status."

“I'm also a writer.” And my last book is partly autobiographical: the hero -journalist tells that he is a “foreign agent”. So now the word has come true. I feel nothing - neither pride nor despair. This is the yellow star that they [in the Ministry of Justice] decide to hang on someone. Maybe they are not people there at all, but computers? Generate these lists ..., ”said Filimonov.

He noted that he does not know whether he will comply with the requirements of the Law on "foreign agents".

Ekaterina Mayakovskaya is the fifth journalist of IDEL. Reali, recognized as an “ino -agent”. In December 2021, the Ministry of Justice entered the register of Andrei and Alina Grigoryev, Regina Khisamova and ex-journalist of the publication Regina Gimalova.

Since 2017, IDEL. Realities have been recognized as a “foreign agent” in Russia, like other projects and Radio Liberty journalists.

LLC Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, representing in Russia, the media corporation of the RSA/RS, and its general director filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights with a request to consider on the merits a complaint about the actions of the Russian authorities that included Russian -language journalistic projects of the corporation in the register of the media - foreign agents.

The application was submitted in accordance with the ECHR procedure as a reaction to the response of the Russian authorities to the corresponding lawsuit of the RSU/RS, aimed at the General Prosecutor General to Strasbourg three months ago. In June 2021, the ECHR assigned a priority status submitted a month earlier.

• The first law related to foreign agents appeared in Russia in 2012. The Ministry of Justice received the right to recognize non-profit organizations “foreign agents” if they receive funding from abroad and are engaged in “political activity”. The criteria for such activities in the law are not clearly defined, which is why organizations operating in the field of education, culture, healthcare, ecology and human rights and human rights fall into the registers.
• Since then, the laws have tightened several times, expanding their effect on the media, individuals and LLC. More than a hundred people and organizations are included in the register of media-foreign agents. In 2021, the list has grown three times. More than two hundred organizations are included in the list of NKO-foreign agents.
• Almost 260 thousand people demand the cancellation of the law on media-names of foreign agents. The authors of the petition believe that this law is "an act of state pressure on the media and public organizations." The petition and a report on the impossibility of amendments and the need to cancel the Law of the OVD-Info (included in the register of foreign agents) transferred the Federation Council to the State Duma.
• The Party "Fair Russia - for Truth" introduced a bill to the State Duma, which involves the assignment of the media status of a foreign agent only through the court. Deputies of the New People faction also introduced a similar bill to the State Duma. A similar requirement was nominated by journalists at a meeting of the Human Rights Council with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Since the beginning of November, for the lack of labeling of foreign agents in social networks , four people-human rights activist Lev Ponomarev (included in the register of media-regents), the former editor of Project (recognized as an undesirable organization) of Roman Badanin (included in the media-foreign agent register), the publisher of the Mediazone, Pyotr Verzilov (publication and journalist. included in the register of the media-foreign agents) and the head of the Voice Movement (recognized by the ino-agent) Inna Karezin (recognized by the media-foreigner).

• President Vladimir Putin signed a law on individuals - "foreign agents" at the end of 2020, but no one was included in it for a long time. All individuals recognized by "foreign agents" fell into the register of the media, "foreign agents".
• On April 5, 2022, the Ministry of Justice for the first time replenished the register of individuals - "foreign agents" - they included Russian -Ukrainian journalists Yevgeny Kiselev and Matvey Ganapolsky. The rules for inclusion in the updated register are the same-you need to receive money from abroad, engage in "political activity" or "collect information in the field of military, military-technical activities of Russia."