Don't touch it, it's for New Year's On the penultimate working day of the year, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation again decided to declare Transparency International - Russia a “foreign agent”. A little background . We were a Russian legal entity with this status for eight years - from 2015 to 2023. After declaring us an “undesirable organization” in March 2023, the Council of the organization decided to liquidate the Russian legal entity.