The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Insider (the publication is recognized as a foreign agent in Russia and is included in the list of undesirable organizations) 400,000 rubles for not being marked as a foreign agent. The agency reported DEA News with reference to Zulfiya Gurinchuk, the press secretary of the court.
“A penalty was imposed in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 400 thousand rubles,” the court said.
In addition, the court fined the Foundation for Helping the Convicts and Their Families, recognized as foreign agents in the Russian Federation, and the head of the organization, Olga Romanova, for a similar violation, fined 350,000 and 100,000. respectively in rubles.
On July 15 last year, Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation restricted access To The Insider website (The Broadcast is recognized as a foreign media agent in Russia and is included in the list of undesirable organisations).
The status of undesirable organizations has legally existed in Russian law since 2015. Since 2017, undesirable organizations are prohibited from creating subsidiaries in the Russian Federation. In the same year, their site was legally allowed to be blocked.
Previously in the State Duma suggested prohibiting the granting of loans to foreign agents.