Blogger Marat Nikandrov (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), whom the Ministry of Justice included in the register of foreign agents based on his own statement, told socialbites.ca the other day that he “lives by his job” – he owns “the most famous technology blog in Kazakhstan”. After the publication of the post, representatives of the StupidMadWorld (SMW) project contacted the editors, who stated that Nikandrov was the administrator of their community on VKontakte, but the SMW team was not responsible for his actions and deeds.
“We would like to make it clear that Marat Nikandrov is not the host, writer or full-time team member of the YouTube channel StupidMadWorld. Marat is actually the administrator of the SMW community on the VK social network, but on the principle of a fan community where a large number of people have editor/admin rights and editors are not responsible for their actions “We are deeply concerned about the current situation and ask that we not associate SMW’s official and public position with the actions of those who seek to exploit the SMW brand,” the team said in a statement.
On Friday, November 17, the Department of Justice expanded the list of foreign agents by seven points. Marat Nikandrov, 19, was also included on the list “based on the declaration of a person who wishes to act as a foreign agent.” In an interview with socialbites.ca, he said acceptedHe said that he graduated from the 9th grade, that he did not study anywhere anymore and that he “lived with his own job”.
Formerly press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov statedIt was observed that most of those who had the status of foreign agents tried to interfere with politics.