Politician Maxim Katz was fined for not being labeled as a “foreign agent”

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow fined politician Maxim Katz due to the lack of the “foreign agent” marking (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) on his telegram posts. Information about this is on the court’s website; Mediazona drew attention to it.

appeared The amount of the fine is unknown. The court's press service refused to provide this information to Mediazona journalists, and Katz himself does not yet know the amount.

Maxim Katz to the register of “foreign agents” in July 2022. The Ministry of Justice named Ukraine as the source of its financing.

put In October 2022, a politician was on the wanted list in the case of military “fakes”; in March, a man was tried in absentia. Maxim Katz lives outside of Russia.

announced he was arrested - The legislation on “foreign agents” is becoming stricter every year. On December 1, 2022, 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 the fall of 2021, OVD-Info launched a 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.” "Inoteka"