In May 2023, a protocol was drawn up against the newspaper “Sibirsky Khleborob” regarding the absence of the “foreign agent” label due to the text about the pig farm, which mentioned a boar named after Maxim Galkin (Part 2.1 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code). The Agency drew attention to this.
“All boars have names. My favorite name is Vanya, and for some reason the test boar is always Slava. There is Narcissus, there was a wonderful boar, Handsome, Maxim - in honor of Maxim Galkin,” a Roskomnadzor employee drew attention to this quote.
In the summer of 2023, the Uzhursky District Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory rejected the claim of Roskomnadzor due to the lack of corpus delicti. The court decided that the text was dedicated to the pig farm, and not to the activities of Maxim Galkin. The judge also added that the indication of the first and last name Maxim Galkin “does not allow us to conclude that this information was disseminated specifically about Maxim Aleksandrovich Galkin.”
Roskomnadzor appealed the court's decision, but the results of the new consideration of the case are unknown. In the text of “Sibirsky Khleborob” a note appeared that Maxim Galkin was included in the register of “foreign agents”.
Comedian Maxim Galkin was added to the register of individuals performing the functions of a “foreign agent” in September 2022. The department cited “political activity” as the reason for adding the comedian to the list of “foreign agents.” He allegedly received funding from Ukraine.
February 23 As a result of repeated consideration, the Uzhursky District Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory nevertheless fined the newspaper “Sibirsky Khleborob” for 40 thousand rubles, finding it guilty under the article on disseminating information in the media about “foreign agents” without indicating their status (part 2.1 of article 13.15 Administrative Code). This was reported by Prospekt Mira with reference to the court decision.
- On February 24, 2022, Galkin spoke out against the war and supported the Ukrainians. Because of this and other anti-war statements, the comedian’s concerts began to be canceled throughout Russia, and he was also fired from Channel One. In April of the same year, Galkin said that he left Russia and moved to Israel. In early September, Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the artist "made very bad statements" and therefore "he is clearly not on the same path with us."
- 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 who is recognized as “foreign agents” and on what grounds, what restrictions these people and organizations face, as well as what risks those who interact with them bear in our report .
- In December 2022, Vladimir Putin also signed a law on imprisonment for up to five years for “foreign agents” who were prosecuted twice in a year for violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). The total amount of fines imposed in 2022 and 2023 by Roskomnadzor on register participants due to the lack of appropriate markings exceeded 1 billion 17 million rubles. In February 2024, a criminal case under the article on evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code) was opened against the editor-in-chief of the publication “Pskov Guberniya” Denis Kamalyagin; in the same month, the former coordinator of the movement “ was arrested in absentia under this article.” Voice" in Pskov by Vladimir Zhilinsky. She was also charged with “Voice” activist from Tver Artem Vazhenkov. The fact that a criminal case had been opened against him became known in February 2023.