Russia stifles opposition by imposing more restrictions on ‘foreign agents’

Last Thursday, December 1, the opponents of the Russian ruling party were once again defeated. It’s a Thursday new more restrictive foreign agent law those who do not follow the official story to the letter. To receive this tag, simply show receipt. financing from abroad By any means. ‘Republican’ media got this label because some embassies in Russia and ‘The Wall Street Journal’ subscribed. web portal.

With legislative change public record of the foreign agentswhere any citizen can find data about his neighbor or colleague, he will also have some information. limitations related to their job or support of government that they may aspire to. Persons on the list will be prohibited from holding public events, participating in pedagogical or didactic projects, receiving support from the Russian State or working as civil servants and other transactions. In addition to being publicly available on the list in question, it can be accessed by any citizen.

You will be able to consult on the same pages of government personal information All these people branded as foreign agents by the Russian authorities. This includes: full names, birth dates and social security numbers, as well as other personal information. “Foreign Agent” is a label inherited from the USA. soviet history and something similar has a very negative connotation in Russia. traitor to the country. This harsh regulation, which is mainly intended, NGO, activists Y journalistsThis complicates the work of independent media, most of which have closed or moved their newsrooms abroad.

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Russian law requires media and organizations designated as agents to wear clearly visible labels that identify material they produce as “made by foreign agents.”, especially when the audience is Russian. This should be done both on the media page itself and on social networks such as Twitter, where a letter of the type should appear: “This message (material) is created and (or) distributed by a foreign media organization performing the functions of a foreign agent and (or) a Russian legal entity performing the functions of a foreign agent”. If a third party shares a story about a news innocent -Russian term- can be fined without being defined as such.

Katya M, who prefers not to use her real name as a precaution, explains that the medium she works in has been announced as ‘The Insider’.unwanted‘—a more negative category but similar to that of a foreign agent—which is how their work totally forbidden in Russia”. Around, supportsbut there are also those who say, “stop this job, leave journalism because this is a job”. Very dangerousHe thinks that most of those who knew him were afraid that he would “end in a bad situation.” prison“Some of my family don’t know what they’re doing because they clearly believe. narrative Kremlin on war: they forced us to fight, there are Nazis in Kiev, independent media spies of the West, etc.100% safe“not that”sell to “FSB” (Russian secret service).

“I think almost all independent media now some kind of list. But there will definitely be more media on the list of extremists, terrorists, foreign agents and banned organizations,” Katya explains. She fears that in the future “people on these lists will begin to expropriate their homes and properties.” .

Many independent portals they had to leave or close the country. For example, this is the case of ‘Novaya Gazeta’, which suspended its activities indefinitely and was re-established abroad. Or the example of the Echo of Moscow station, whose area in the radio spectrum is currently occupied by Sputnik, which belongs to the Russian Government. The Dozhd channel also left the country in 2022, among others.


Source: Informacion

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