The chief edges of the rain Tikhon Dzyadko were fined due to the lack of a “foreign” marking

Tikhon Dzyadko / Photo: Telegram channel Dzyadko

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow fined 35 thousand rubles of the editor -in -chief of the Rain television channel Tikhon Dzyadko - the reason was the lack of a marking of a “foreign agent” (part 4 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in his social networks. This was reported by the telegram channel "Caution, News."

The fact that the administrative protocol was drawn up at Dzyadko at the end of June. The editor -in -chief of the rainwas introduced into the register of "Ino -Agents" in October 2022. The journalist lives outside of Russia.

Since the spring of this year, public figures, musicians, musicians and writers regularly draw up protocols due to the lack of a “foreign” marking. Information about this ATD-Info collects here .

Two offenses under Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which entered into force, may become a reason for criminal prosecution: security forces can start a case of “malicious evasion of the duties of the“ foreign agent ”” (Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code), the maximum punishment is five years of imprisonment. This article was included in the Criminal Code recently - at the end of December 2022, after Vladimir Putin signed the relevant law.

In December 2022, the law came into force and numerous legislative amendments to the “foreign” regulation. Among other things, they tighten responsibility for failure to provide reports to the Ministry of Justice, as well as cancel banking, family and commercial secrets. Read more-in the analysis of the OWD-Info .
OVD-Info launched the project "Inotek" . We study the practice of applying laws on “foreign agents”, talk about their influence on civilian society and specific people, initiate discussion with experts and offer 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 in the register of “foreign agents”.