Russia’s Justice Ministry updates ‘foreign agent’ list to include Memorial co-founder Oleg Orlov and Russian Wikimedia director Stanislav Kozlovsky, among others
Source: Meduza
Russia’s Justice Ministry has added six people to its “foreign agents” list:
- Oleg Orlov, human rights advocate and co-founder of Memorial
- Stanislav Kozlovsky, director of the Russian chapter of Wikimedia and former associate professor at Moscow State University
- Anton Kartavin, independent Novosibirsk City Council deputy
- Mikhail Chimarov, photographer and activist
- Nikita Sokolov, historian and former Yeltsin Center employee
- Sergey Stepanov, journalist
The Russian Justice Ministry said that Orlov, Sokolov, Stepanov, and Chimarov “opposed the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine,” Kartavin disseminated false information about the Russian authorities’ actions, and Kozlovsky created materials for “foreign agents” and “collaborated with foreign media outlets, one of which has been declared ‘undesirable’ in Russia.”
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