Russian Justice Ministry names new ‘foreign agents,’ including Dalai Lama’s envoy Telo Tulku Rinpoche and Little Big frontman Ilya Prusikin
Source: Meduza
Russia’s Justice Ministry has added several new people and organizations to its ever-expanding “foreign agent” list.
The new individuals on the list are:
- Ilya Prusikin, frontman of the punk-pop-rave band Little Big;
- journalist Fidel Agumava;
- the Buddhist lama Erdne-Basan Ombadykow, also known as Telo Tulku Rinpoche, an American-born spiritual head of Russia’s Kalmyk Buddhists and the Dalai Lama’s representative in Russia;
- the Tatar human-rights activist and former political prisoner Rafis Kashapov;
- feminist Daria Serenko, a leader of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance movement.
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