Russia’s Ministry of Justice has added more people and organisations to the “foreign agents” list: it now includes Russian singer Boris Grebenshchikov, non-profit organisation Anglo-American School of Moscow, as well as independent media outlets Sota.vision and Paper.
The other additions to the “foreign agents” list include:
- journalist Alexey Gorpichenko;
- journalist Andrey Karaulov;
- deputy of the Moscow City Duma Mikhail Timonov;
- head of the Yakimanka municipal district Andrey Morev;
- former Chief Rabbi of Moscow Philip Goldschmidt.
The Justice Ministry considers Alexandra Einbinder and Oleg Yelanchik to be members of Sota.Vision and Kirill Artemenko to be a member of Paper.
Famous Russian musician Boris Grebenshchikov was declared a “foreign agent” for performing “in foreign countries with the goal of providing financial support to Ukraine” and speaking out against the war.
According to the Russian ministry, the Anglo-American School of Moscow “was carrying out activities in regards to propaganda of LGBT relations”. These actions, the ministry writes, “contradict the state policy on preserving and strengthening traditional, Russian spiritual and moral values, as well as the constitutional priorities when it comes to the protection of families, motherhood, and childhood”.
On 23 June, the Justice Ministry designated politician and mathematician Mikhail Lobanov, public figure and businessman Leonid Nevzlin, Moscow City Council member Yevgeny Stupin, ex-local councillor Vitaly Bovar, ex-head of the Perm office of Memorial Robert Latypov, lawyer of the Russian LGBT network Alexander Belik, scientific journalist Ilya Kolmanovsky, the Conscious Refusal Movement, as well as the Action community centre as “foreign agents”.
