Journalist Sonya Groysman was fined 10 thousand rubles due to a single picket in 2021

Journalist Sonya Groysman was fined 10,000 rubles for a one-man picket she held in August 2021. this She announced in the telegram channel of her podcast “Hello, you are a foreign agent.”

On August 21, 2021, Groysman went to the FSB building in Moscow with a poster “This message (material) was created and (or) distributed by a foreign media outlet acting as a foreign agent and (or) a Russian legal entity acting as a foreign agent.” According to data published on the website of the Moscow courts, the Meshchansky District Court ruled on June 22, finding the journalist guilty of violating the procedure for holding public events (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

“Apparently, after that picket, the FSB put us on some kind of black list - everyone from our paddy wagon is now being kept at the border at the exit and entrance. Of course, we will file an appeal, but how infuriating and angry that we have to pay money to the Russian budget, ”the journalist wrote.

Sonya Groysman was included in the list of “foreign agents” media on July 23, 2021.

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• At the end of December 2020, the State Duma adopted changes to the legislation on "foreign agents". 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. The tightening of legislation continued in February 2021.