Writer Mikhail Zygar (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) and film critic Anton Dolin (recognized as an agent of foreign media in the Russian Federation) are liquidating the Tenes publishing house (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Russian Federation). Department of Justice) and reorient themselves to the Western market. Life reports this with this reference: Shot.
According to the publication, this was because Tenes had previously earned money from government contracts, but after the start of SVO, government funding ended. On October 21, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included Mikhail Zygar in the list of foreign agents of the media, and on October 14 of the same year, film critic Anton Dolin was recognized as a foreign agent. Shot also notes that sales of Zygar’s books have been stopped in Russia.
Moscow Basmanny Court at the end of August appointed Russian writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar was given an administrative fine of 30 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of violating the rules of a foreign agent.
The journalist was previously the editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation) and now runs his own YouTube channel, where he interviews mostly foreign guests. He left Russia in 2022 and went to Germany, where he currently lives.
Film critic Anton Dolin left Russia in March 2022. Telegram channel Baza in 2023 reportedThe journalist applied for Israeli citizenship.
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