The Ministry of Justice recognized the “foreign agents” of the Politics of Ponomarev and journalists

On October 21, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation updated the registers of "foreign agents". This was reported on the website of the department.

In the list of the media, the “foreign agents” was the journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar.

Also, individuals-"foreign agents" recognized:

• Opposition policy and ex-deputy of the State Duma Ilya Ponomarev
• Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky
• ex-journalists "Echo of Moscow" Tatyana Felgenhauer (Shadrina) and Alexander Poychev
• Chuvash policy Semyon Kochkina
• Bashkir policy Ruslan Gabbasov
• Chapter "Transpenser Internet Russia" Ilya Shumanova
• The widow of the oligarch Dmitry Bosov Katerina Bosov

The news is supplemented

• In the register of the media, "foreign agents", where individuals can also be introduced, now more than 150 people and organizations.
• The recognition of the so -called "foreign agent" imposes a number of restrictions and requirements on the organizations and people, for the failure of which the persecution can threaten the prosecution up to criminal.
• The Russian authorities are actively replenishing the registers in the past few years, including mainly their opponents or independent civil activists and journalists. Media-agents were previously recognized by radio freedom and other projects of the Media Corporation of the RSE/RS, as well as a number of journalists cooperating with Freedom.