The coordinator of “Voice” from the Kemerovo region was fined due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings • OVD-Info • RIMA

The coordinator of “Voice” from the Kemerovo region was fined due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings

The Belovsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region fined the electoral expert of the “Voice” movement Sergei Piskunov due to the lack of “foreign agency” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) for comments on VKontakte. attention to file . the case drew Sibir.Realii

The channel “Kuzbass without censorship”, associated with the security forces , clarified that the fine amounted to 30 thousand rubles. In September, he was already fined the same amount due to failure to provide a “foreign agent” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

Piskunov was added to the register of media outlets as “foreign agents” on September 29, 2021. As Piskunov himself said, he was recognized as a “foreign agent” because of 9,222 rubles received from the League of Voters in 2020, and 950 rubles received from a resident of Tajikistan in 2021. In 2022, Piskunov was denied the removal of his status.

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.”