The court approved the status of “foreign agent” for a deputy from Komi without documents on funding

On December 8, the Supreme Court of Komi approved the status of the media as a “foreign agent” for the deputy of the regional State Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Viktor Vorobyov. The “Younger Poet of Justice” telegram channel is about this.

reports In its decision, the court referred to a letter from Rosfinmonitoring on “foreign financing.” The letter states that it “is for informational purposes only, cannot be included in the materials of official audits and requires verification with primary financial documents.”

When adding Vorobyov to the register, the Ministry of Justice did not provide such documents.

In the letter from the department, among the sources of “foreign funding,” in addition to the human rights organizations Memorial and Apology, as well as the publication New Regional Media, the state university Higher School of Economics is named.

• Viktor Vorobyov to the register of media “foreign agents” on April 1. He became the first member of the legislative assembly to receive this status. The court made this decision in June.

introduced and recognized as legal - on December 1, the law “On control over the activities of persons under foreign influence” came into force, as well as numerous legislative amendments to “foreign agency” regulation. You can read about the list of “affiliated persons”, new registers and other innovations in the law on “foreign agents”.

analysis of OVD-Info - In February 2022, OVD-Info launched the project. We explore the practice of applying laws on “foreign agents”, talk about their impact on civil society and specific people, initiate discussions with experts and suggest ways of possible changes. In December 2021, together with the Center for the Protection of Media Rights, we began to provide legal support to people and organizations that were included in the registers of “foreign agents.”

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