Foreign Agents Law

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The Insider editor-in-chief arrested in absentia in illegal border crossing case

The Moscow Lefortovsky District Court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for editor-in-chief of The Insider (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent and an undesirable organization) Roman Dobrokhotov (recognized as a foreign media agent in Russia) in a case over illegal crossing of the state border.

12:22 05.08.2022

Russian President Putin signs law on control over foreign agents’ activities

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill prohibiting those who have a foreign agent status from conducting any sort of educational activities aimed at minors and producing any information products for that target group into law.

16:04 14.07.2022

Navalny’s ally fined for breach of operation order for foreign agent media

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court on Tuesday fined Lyubov Sobol, an ally of convicted blogger Alexey Navalny, 10,000 rubles ($163) for violating the order of operation set for mass media labeled as foreign agent.

13:16 12.07.2022

Journalist Dud fails to challenge enlisting in foreign agent register

The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against mass media-foreign agent status filed by journalist and blogger Yury Dud.

11:51 07.07.2022

Moscow court to proceed with blogger Dud’s suit against foreign agent label

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court will proceed with an administrative lawsuit lodged by journalist and blogger Yury Dud challenging his mass media-foreign agent status.

12:31 16.06.2022

Journalist Yury Dud challenges foreign agent status

Journalist and blogger Yury Dud has filed an administrative lawsuit against Russia’s Justice Ministry challenging a mass media-foreign agent label.

16:19 07.06.2022

Memorial NGO fined $4,000 for violation of foreign agents law

Moscow's Tverskoy District Court on Friday fined Memorial human rights center 300,000 rubles ($4,000) for breaching the order of the operation of non-commercial organizations discharging the foreign agent's functions.

15:41 01.10.2021

Editor-in-chief of The Insider wanted as part of illegal border crossing case

Editor-in-chief of The Insider media (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent) Roman Dobrokhotov has been put on a wanted list on the illegal border crossing charges.

12:57 30.09.2021

Moscow Bar Association: law firm websites not obliged to use "foreign agent" designations

Websites of law firms cannot be defined as a mass media outlets, so they have no obligation to use the "foreign agent" designation to label foreign-funded organisations that are engaged in political activity, according to the decision of the Moscow Bar Association.

14:08 23.07.2021

Ex-chief of opposition group declared "undesirable" fined $670

Andrey Pivovarov, a former director of Otkrytaya Rossia, an opposition group declared in Russia "undesirable", has been fined 50,000 rubles ($670).

16:26 19.07.2021

Russian Justice Ministry labels Institute for Law and Public Policy 'foreign agent'

Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday added Institute for Law and Public Policy to its list of “foreign agents”.

14:08 16.07.2021

Foreign agent label of Meduza media outlet upheld

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow on Friday upheld the Russian Justice Ministry’s decision to include Meduza registered in Latvia in the list of media acting as foreign agents.

11:03 04.06.2021

Vtimes media enters in foreign agents list – Russian Justice Ministry

The Justice Ministry of Russia on Friday placed Vtimes media outlet on the register of mass media acting as foreign agents.

13:24 14.05.2021

Meduza media outlet declared foreign agent

The Justice Ministry added Meduza to the list of media acting as foreign agents, the Ministry’s press service reports Friday.

14:55 23.04.2021

President Putin signs law on new requirements for nonprofits registered as foreign agents

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning the use of residential premises as locations of structural units of foreign NGOs.

18:12 05.04.2021

Russian nonprofit registered by Justice Ministry as foreign agent files for bankruptcy

The Moscow Commercial Court will consider an application of the ANO Institute for Globalization and Social Movements (the organization is registered by the Russian Justice Ministry as a foreign agent) seeking its own bankruptcy on May 6.

11:00 05.04.2021

Russian Justice Ministry’s decision to add journalist to foreign agents list suspended

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Wednesday suspended the Justice Ministry’s decision to declare journalist of 7x7 media outlet Sergey Markelov a foreign agent.

12:23 24.03.2021

Putin sets fines for distribution of information on foreign agents without marking

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on fines for distribution of information on individual foreign agents without appropriate marking into law.

11:10 24.02.2021

Russia’s Justice Ministry to maintain foreign agents register

Russia’s Justice Ministry has developed a draft of a Presidential executive order empowering the body to maintain the register of unregistered nongovernmental associations and individuals performing functions of foreign agents.

16:10 19.02.2021

Navalny’s foundation denied removal from foreign agent register

Russia’s Justice Ministry refused to exclude a foundation established by Alexey Navalny from the list of NGOs acting as foreign agents.

18:15 25.12.2020