The court refused to remove human rights activist Regina Dzugkoeva from the register of media outlets - "foreign agents"

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow refused to exclude human rights activist Regina Dzugkoeva from the register of "foreign agents." This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Maxim Olenichev, who represents Dzugkoeva's interests.

Dzugkoeva heads the Far Eastern public movement "Mayak" and the ANO "Lilit", which provide psychological and legal assistance to LGBTQ individuals and women who have suffered from violence. She was added to the register of "foreign agent" media outlets in April.

contributed In court, it turned out that the Ministry of Justice began collecting information about Dzugkoeva’s activities in November 2021: at that time, Rosfinmonitoring sent the department a document about Dzugkoeva’s receipt of funds from ANO Lilit and the Sfera Charitable Foundation, which were previously included in the register of NPOs-“foreign agents”.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice believes that Dzugkoeva posted links to materials from Radio Liberty and Current Time (the department also recognized them as “foreign agents”) on the social network VKontakte on a page under the nickname “Regina Kalinicheva.” Olenichev reported that the department could not confirm that this page was run by Dzugkoeva.

On August 24, the court also excluded publicist Yevgeny Ponasenkov from the register. A day earlier, Polina Kostyleva, coordinator of the "Golos" voters' association in St. Petersburg, was excluded from the register.

refused excluded - In November 2021, Maxim Olenichev was also included in the register of "foreign agent" media outlets. included - At the end of December 2020, the State Duma amended the legislation on "foreign agents". According to the new clarifications, the status of "foreign agent" can be obtained by an individual engaged in political activities and receiving money for this from abroad. Another bill prohibits the dissemination of information from "foreign agents" in the media without a special mark. The tightening of legislation continued in and . adopted 2021 2022 - In February 2022, OVD-Info launched the project . We study the practice of applying laws on "foreign agents", talk about their impact on civil society and specific people, initiate discussions with experts and propose ways of possible changes. In December 2021, together with the Center for the Defense of Mass Media Rights, we began to provide legal support to people and organizations that ended up in the registers of "foreign agents". "Inoteka"