MOSCOW, Jun 27 Foreign agents cannot be election observers, the decision of the plenum of the Supreme Court says.
The Court recalled that citizens who have been granted such a status by the Ministry of Justice cannot participate in election campaigns and contribute to a certain result in the elections, “have no right to carry out activities that promote or hinder the nomination candidates, lists of candidates, election of registered candidates».
«Taking this into account, a person with the status of a foreign agent cannot be an observer at elections, a referendum,» the document says.
In December 2022, the Ministry of Justice published a unified register of foreign agents, which includes individuals persons, registered and unregistered non-profit and non-governmental organizations, mass media and public associations.