Vladimir Putin included in the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) the head of the Anti-Globalist Movement of Russia, Alexander Ionov, after whose denunciations Meduza and The Bell were declared “foreign agents.” This was reported on the Kremlin website.
In addition, the president of the charitable foundation «Rus Food Bank» was included in the HRC. Yulia Nazarova, director of the organization “Platform for working with appeals from entrepreneurs” Elina Sidorenko, director of the organization “Space of Equal Opportunities” Igor Novikov, as well as senior researcher at the Center for the Study of the Great Patriotic War at the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Solovyov.
In addition In addition, Putin expelled from the HRC the head of the organization “Peacekeeping Mission named after General Lebed” Alexander Mukomolov, the chairman of the board of the organization “Independent Expert Legal Council” Mara Polyakova, the economist Yevgeny Yasin, who died in September, lawyers Shota Gorgadze and Henry Reznik, as well as a columnist for “Novaya” newspapers» by Leonid Nikitinsky. Reznik and Nikitinsky announced their resignations from the body last year.
The Kremlin release calls Alexander Ionov a “public figure.” In the United States, he is accused of spreading “pro-Russian propaganda” during elections in one of the local cities and financing the movement for reparations for African Americans.