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As of March 2021, foreign agents in Russia are divided into three groups, which were defined by law in different years: Non-profit organizations-foreign agents - since 2012. [1] [2] Media-foreign agents - since 2017. [3] Individuals-foreign agents from 2020. An individual - "foreign agent" may be additionally recognized by the media, which ...
RT is a brand of TV-Novosti - self-named an "autonomous non-profit organization" (ANO) - founded by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti in April 2005. [ 7 ] [ 17 ] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin , included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations ...
Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher accused of breaking Russia's "foreign agent" laws, pleaded guilty at a trial on Monday and is now in line to receive a lighter sentence, Russian state media said.
Russia plans to significantly tighten the rules governing the income received by those deemed "foreign agents" and of those who speak negatively about Russia after leaving the country, the speaker ...
On 21 November 2012, the Federal Law of 20 July 2012 No.121-FZ "On Amendments to Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation regarding the Regulation of the Activities of Non-profit Organisations Performing the Functions of a Foreign Agent", [9] which is the amendments to the Federal Law of 19 May 1995 No.82-FZ "On public associations", the Federal Law of 12 January 1996 No.7-FZ "On Non-profit ...
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has released a slickly produced Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence employees to switch sides and work as double agents for Washington.
On 26 November 2021, Oleg Elanchik, chief editor, was proclaimed a foreign agent, a status close to extremism in modern Russia. [13]During a live broadcast in September 2022 from the streets in Moscow, Artem Kriger, a journalist at the SOTA news site, was given a draft summons after being arrested while covering anti-mobilisation protests in Moscow.
The law allows Moscow to force foreign media to brand their own news provided to Russians as the work of "foreign agents". [197] The law started to be enforced on large scale in 2020 and 2021, when a number of media outlets have received orders to include large "foreign agent" statement in the beginning of their publications.