Political scientist Valery Solovey (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) was recognized as a foreign agent, as he received more than 2 million 700 thousand rubles in funding from foreign organizations, in particular Google. TASSciting an example of a court decision in the case of a political scientist against the Ministry of Justice.
Nightingale was added to the appropriate record in September 2022. The political scientist did not agree with this and filed a lawsuit with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, demanding the annulment of such a decision.
In the court decision, “The Court found that on June 17, 2022, it received information from the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation that Solovey VD received funds from foreign sources.”
According to the court, from October 2021 to February 2022, five transactions were made – 2 million 765 thousand 61 rubles from Google Ireland Limited. Nightingale is also said to have received funding from ICEUR-Vienna, an independent institute that provides analytical research in the field of business, economics and political relations in the EU from October to December 2021. The amount received by the political scientist is not specified.
Based on these data, the court denied Valery Solovy’s execution of the administrative request against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
On December 2, the court rejected Request for the cancellation of Solov’y’s decision to recognize himself as a foreign agent.
Valery Solovey is a Russian historian, political scientist, broadcaster and public figure. Doctor of Historical Sciences. From 2007 to 2019 – Professor and Head of Advertising and Public Relations at MGIMO.