Russian satirist and publicist Viktor Shenderovich said that he decided to leave Russia due to the threat of prosecution in a libel case. An application with a request to initiate a criminal case against Shenderovich was recently submitted to the Moscow police by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Concord company, the BBC reports. Prigogine -...
Washington, D.C. lobbyist Samuel Patten was indicted on August 31 for acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States on behalf of Russians and Ukrainians between 2014 and 2017. The Patten case was investigated by a special ...
The Saratov public organization of disabled people with diabetes mellitus was founded in the late 1980s by doctors and teachers of the medical institute. But in 2018, she was accused of pressure on the government and recognized as a "foreign agent." How it happened, Medusa said. According to a member of the organization ...
Russia has formally declared Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and Voice of America as foreign agents. The list also includes other publications: the TV channel "Present Time", the Tatar-Bashkir service "Radio Liberty (AzatliqRadiosi)", "Siberia. Realities "," Idel. Realities "," Factographer "," Caucasus. Realities "," Crimea. Realities ". This is reported on the site ...
The Russia Today TV channel did not fulfill at the set time the requirement of the US Department of Justice to register itself as a foreign agent, CNN reports, citing documents from the country's Ministry of Justice. The Justice Ministry gave the Russia Today TV channel a deadline to register until October 17. According to publicly available documents ...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in early September interrogated the former correspondent of the Russian news agency Sputnik in the White House, American Andrew Feinberg. This came as part of an investigation into whether the channel was acting as an unofficial propaganda arm of the Kremlin in violation of the 1938 Law on...