On December 22, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg received materials from the case against ex-deputy of the city’s legislative assembly Maxim Reznik under the article on the absence of the “foreign agent” marking (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). attention to this . drew ZAKS.Ru
The meeting date has not yet been set. It is unknown what became the reason for drawing up the protocol.
In April 2022, Reznik was sentenced to five months in a penal colony on charges of buying drugs for personal use (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The man was released in the courtroom after spending ten months under house arrest. In September of the same year, the politician left Russia.
In September, the Ministry of Justice added Reznik to the register of “foreign agents.”
- 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.”