A report was drawn up against the editor of Dovod, Kirill Ishutin, under the article on distributing materials of a “foreign agent” without markings (Part 5 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). this The editors reported .
Ishutin was charged with publications on the Argument website. The editors did not specify which ones exactly.
The case has not yet gone to trial.
In August, the Ministry of Justice added Dovod to the register of “foreign agents” because of materials about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In October, the publication’s editor-in-chief Ilya Kosygin was also included in the register .
In the spring of 2022, the publication's journalists, including Ishutin, left Russia after becoming witnesses in the case of anti-war graffiti in Vladimir. As part of the case, they were also searched.
- 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.”