Publicist and ex-State Duma deputy Alexander Nevzorov and journalist Andrei Zakharov were fined 40 thousand rubles under the article on failure to provide the Ministry of Justice with reports on their activities (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). this. reports ZAKS.RU
Nevzorov was fined by the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg, and Zakharov by the Kolpinsky District Court.
In April 2022, Nevzorov was added to the register of “foreign agents.” That same year, he was fined twice for lack of markings, and in February 2023, ten thousand rubles, the amount of one of the fines, were written off from his Russian account. Zakharov was added to the register of “foreign agents” in October 2021.
Since the spring of this year, reports have been regularly drawn up against public figures, journalists, musicians and writers due to the lack of “foreign” markings. OVD-Info collects information about this here .
- In March 2022, a criminal case was opened against Nevzorov for “fakes” about the Russian army. The reason was publications about a Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol and the killings of civilians in Bucha . In February, he was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison. Even before the criminal prosecution, Nevzorov left Russia, and in June 2022 he accepted Ukrainian citizenship.
- 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” in the analysis of OVD-Info .
- In addition, Vladimir Putin signed a law on imprisonment for a term of up to five years for “foreign agents” who were brought to justice twice in a year for violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).