The Ministry of Justice declared musician Boris Grebenshchikov, journalist Andrei Karaulov and the publications “Bumaga” and Sota.vision “foreign agents”

The Ministry of Justice declared the publications Paper and Sota.vision , as well as the founder of the Aquarium group Boris Grebenshchikov, “foreign agents”. This is reported on the department's website.

In addition, the list included journalists Andrei Karaulov and Alexei Gorpinchenko, Moscow City Duma deputy Mikhail Timonov, deputy chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev, the autonomous non-profit educational organization Anglo-American School of Moscow, as well as the former chief rabbi of the capital Philip Pinchas Goldschmidt.

The reason for including Grebenshchikov in the register was that he opposed the war and organized concerts in support of Ukraine. Karaulov, Morev and Timonov, as well as Sota.vision and Bamaga, according to the Ministry of Justice, distributed materials from other “foreign agents”.

The “Anglo-American School of Moscow,” as the department writes, “carried out activities to promote LGBT relations,” and Gorpinchenko and Goldshmidt disseminated “inaccurate information about the decisions taken by public authorities of the Russian Federation and the policies they pursue” and also opposed the invasion of Ukraine . In June 2022 , it became known that Goldschmidt left Russia after the authorities demanded that he publicly support the war in Ukraine.