Two protocols were drawn up against the editor-in-chief of Dovod, Ilya Kosygin, under the article on violation of the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (clause 4 and clause 5 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). this The publication itself reports .
It is clarified that the protocols were drawn up due to the dissemination of “Argument” materials without “foreign agency” markings. The documents were received by the Leninsky District Court of Vladimir on December 26, 2023.
In August 2023, the Ministry of Justice added Dovod to the register of “foreign agents” due to materials about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In October of the same year, the editor-in-chief of the publication, Ilya Kosygin, was also included in the register .
In the spring of 2022, the publication’s journalists 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.”