Russia’s Justice Ministry refuses to accept mandatory ‘foreign agent’ reports from pro-Kremlin blogger
Russia’s Justice Ministry is refusing to accept mandatory foreign agent reports from Roman Alekhin, a pro-Kremlin blogger whom Russian authorities have designated a foreign agent, Alekhin said.
“They just aren’t receiving them by mail. Very interesting. As I said: they’re preparing fines and criminal charges against me for supposedly not submitting the reports. This is so rotten, dirty, and crooked that I simply have no words,” Alekhin wrote on his Telegram channel.
He added that appealing to Russia’s Presidential Administration was “pointless,” since everything sent there gets forwarded to the Justice Ministry, which responds with a form letter containing no useful substance or real answers to his questions.
What this amounts to is pushing out of the country not a liberal, not an enemy of the state, not someone who spoke out against the president’s decision to start the SVO, but someone who supports his country in word, deed, and money. This is the pushing out of a volunteer and a participant in the war. The only problem is I have nowhere to go — I burned all my bridges myself when I chose the path of a patriot and signed a contract to take part in the war. Russia is my homeland; I was born here and I will die here. Just shoot me already, or plant drugs on me and lock me up and kill me behind bars. Why drag it out and make such a mockery of Russia’s laws…
Roman Alekhin is a native of the Kursk region. In 2024, he served as an adviser to the Kursk governor — a post held at the time by Alexei Smirnov, who was later convicted on bribery charges. By then, Alekhin had established himself as a military volunteer and “social technologist” and was an active Telegram blogger who covered, among other things, Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region. In September 2025, Russia’s Justice Ministry designated Alekhin a foreign agent, requiring him to submit regular financial reports to the ministry.
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