Musician Noize MC (real name Ivan Alekseev) and chess player and politician Garry Kasparov were fined under the article on violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent.” This was reported by Mediazona and TASS .
The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow fined Alekseev 30 thousand rubles. The reason for drawing up the protocol was the failure to provide a report on the activities of the “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code), writes TASS.
The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow considered Kasparov's case. He was fined 40 thousand rubles due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings on publications (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences), the press service of the court reported to Mediazona.
The Ministry of Justice included Garry Kasparov in the register of “foreign agents” in May 2022, Noize MC in November. In June 2023, Alekseev was fined 30 thousand rubles due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings on two posts in his public page on VKontakte. At the end of October, the court received another case under a similar article against Kasparov, but it has not yet been considered.
- 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).
- In the fall of 2021, OVD-Info launched the Inoteka 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.”