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The Ministry of Justice recognized the “ino -agents” by Kirill Rogov and Konstantin Eggert
The Ministry of Justice of Russia on Friday declared the so -called foreign agent of the famous political scientist and publicist Kirill Rogov.
In addition to it, the register of “Ino -Agents” was replenished by the editor -in -chief of the "Dilent" Vitaliy Dymarsky, journalist Deutsche Welle Konstantin Eggert, economist Mikhail Krutikhin, author of the Old Denacification, Alexander Stefanov and the founder of the Circassian movement "Hubze" Martin Koseyokov.
Ino-agents organizations are recognized by the Vladimir Internet publication “argument” and the German NGO “MRR-my Russian Rights”, which is associated with the head of the human rights movement “Rus sitting” Olga Romanova.
Konstantin Eggert is a laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of the media, he received the award in 2013.
The Ministry of Justice also excluded from the register of the Jourlitho of the St. Petersburg news agency Rosbalt - as indicated on the website of the department, "in connection with the termination of foreign financing." The Rosbalt agency was recognized as a “foreign agent” in 2021, and at the beginning of 2023 announced its liquidation due to difficulties in working with the status of “foreign agent”.
- The legislation on "foreign agents" in Russia appeared in 2012. The law allowed the Ministry of Justice to recognize non-profit organizations by “foreign agents” if they receive financing from abroad and are engaged in political activities. The criteria for which such activities are determined are not clearly defined in the law, which allows the authorities to persecute organizations working in the field of education, culture, healthcare, ecology, and the protection of human rights.
- Subsequently, it became possible to recognize the media and individuals "in foreign agents", including those who do not receive foreign financing, but "are under foreign influence." What exactly should be considered foreign influence, Russian legislation does not specify.