MOSCOW, Apr 25The decision to include foreign agents in the register can be appealed in court, the draft law on foreign agents introduces a procedure for exclusion from the relevant register, follows from the text of the bill posted in the Duma electronic database. in the article regulating the procedure for including persons in the register of foreign agents. The bill also introduces the procedure for exclusion from the register of foreign agents. A separate article clarifies that the grounds for exclusion from the register may be: the termination of the activities of a legal entity in connection with its liquidation, the termination of the activities of an association of persons, a foreign structure without forming a legal entity, the death of an individual. A foreign agent may be excluded from the register, «if during the year preceding the day of filing an application to remove this agent from the register, he did not receive funds and other property from foreign sources, organizational, methodological, scientific and technical assistance, assistance in other forms, and (or) did not operate».
16:02 The Ministry of Justice will be able to ask the RKN to restrict access to the website of a foreign agent A similar decision can be made if the foreign agent, no later than three months from the date of inclusion in the register, refused to receive funds and (or) other property from foreign sources and returned them to him, and also did not receive other assistance from foreign sources. The decision to include individuals affiliated with foreign agents in the register of foreign agents can be appealed in court, the bill says. On Monday, senators and deputies submitted to the State Duma a draft law on control over the activities of persons under foreign influence . In particular, according to the document, information about individuals affiliated with foreign agents will be entered in a single register of foreign agents. At the same time, they “are not subject to the requirements and restrictions established for foreign agents.” It is noted that the decision of the authorized body to include an individual affiliated with a foreign agent in such a register can be appealed in court. “foreign agent”, which is proposed to mean the founder, member, participant or head of an organization or unregistered public association that has received the status of a foreign agent. It is also proposed to understand an affiliated natural person as a person who is (was) a member of the governing bodies and is (was) the founder, head, employee of a foreign agent included in the register. In addition, a person who receives (received) money or other property assistance from a foreign agent, including through intermediaries, for political activities can become an affiliated individual. .jpg» />16:52Foreign agents will not be able to hold positions in public authorities
