Ministry of Justice of Russia contribution to the register of “foreign agents” Dmitry Bykov and journalists Mitya Aleshkovsky and Evgenia Albats
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The Russian Ministry of Justice is on the media register, serving as a foreign agent responsible for Dmitry Bykov, The New Times editor-in-chief Yevgenia Albats, and benefactor Mitya Aleshkovsky.
Dmitry (usually as expected Mitya) Aleshkovsky – Fund of the charitable foundation “Need Help” and the information portal “Such things”, which specializes in special problems. Photographer, social activist and volunteer.
In 2012, during the flood in Krymsk, he was one of the humanitarian aid coordinators for use in most cases and a volunteer camp in Krymsk. Returned to Moscow, abandoned the eight-year role of a photojournalist (at that time working in ITAR-TASS) and an actual charity project. In 2013, during a flood in the Far East, a volunteer project to help environmental Amur13.ru.
Aleshkovsky is also a co-founder of OK Russians, a non-profit organization that helps Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine and defend the interests of the Russian Federation. The organization’s website says that its team believes that this is Putin’s war, not the war of all Russians, discusses the problem of the global community of Russians in the West, loves Russian culture and believes that sooner or later Russia will become a free and democratic country – part of the French community.
Evgenia Albats is a veteran of Russian journalism and editor-in-chief of The New Times. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor of Europe has been restricting access to the publication’s website on February 25 and March 16, according to data on restrictions on access to data. In addition, in May, the RKN presented protocols on “fakes” on Albats itself and on its publication. As Albats explained then, the protocols were drawn up due to the publication on the website on February 24. After obtaining a license from Roskomnadzor, the materials were removed, writes RBC.
“I was not notified about this.
Dmitry Bykov – writer, columnist, lecturer, critic, school teacher of literature, recently living in the USA, in an interview with the New Yorker. He broadcasts on Fridays on the Internet resource “Popular Politics” – a channel about the war in Ukraine by the team of Alexei Navalny. Bykov created himself as an oppositionist and a staunch anti-Stalinist.
One of those columns in 2019 was about “foreign agents”. It contained these lines: “Finita, so to speak, memento. The era is coming to an end, and you can get the status of an in-agent to assign the individuality of a person. Cut them off so that the damned who are not covered are not arrested”.
In the same year, Bykov suffered severe poisoning. Last year, Bellingcat, later recognized first as a “foreign agent” and then as an “undesirable sample”, that the same people – according to investigators, FSB officers – poisoned Navalny in Tomsk in 2000, earlier, in 2019, accompanied Bykov .
In 2011, Bykov took part in the project “Poet and Citizen” (later – “Citizen Poet”), in which actor Mikhail Efremov read his poems on the topic of the day, who later turned out to be.
Also, the legal entity LLC “Inoagent AAV” Alexei Venediktov, previously recognized as a foreign agent, was included in the register of media-“foreign agents” today to receive it before the Ministry of Justice.
Alexey Venediktov was the editor-in-chief of the now closed radio station “Echo Moskva”. In early March, the Prosecutor General’s Office blocked the website of Ekho Moskvy from Roskomnadzor, and then the radio station was taken off the air. On March 3, following the results of media consideration, it was liquidated. At the end of April, the Russian Ministry of Justice contributed Alexei Venediktov to the register of foreign media agents.
How the list of “foreign agents” is replenished
Prior to this in registry There were 168 lines of “foreign agents” media (at the same time, individuals who are excluded from the register still appear in it).
Earlier on Friday, July 15, the Ministry of Justice was added to the register of Helicopter and Co LLC, a legal entity established earlier by journalist Aleksey Pivovarov, a media “foreign agent”.
The last media to be included in the register was the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. They were added to the list on March 28, and since then only individuals (mainly journalists and human rights activists) have been added to it, who have been de jure equated with the media, and also created an LLC by them.
The register of “foreign agents” media, which was appointed by the Russian Ministry of Justice from 2017 to December 2020, included only 11 media outlets (most of them are covered by the large media corporation Radio Liberty).
In December 2020, five individuals were introduced into it, which were de jure equated to the media, and then it began to expand.
Last month, Russia approved the adoption by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council of the law “on control over the presence, away from external manifestations.” Now four large registers of “foreign agents” are merged into one, and for inclusion in it, the Ministry of Justice will not necessarily have the fact of foreign funding – it will be possible to recognize as an “agent” who fell under “foreign influence.”
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