The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation explained the inclusion of Republic in the register of media outlets-“foreign agents” by the fact that foreign embassies and branches of foreign organizations paid for a subscription to classified materials of the publication. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of the Republic Dmitry Kolezev in the telegram channel. «empty» alt=»» />
The Ministry claims that the publication received funds from the «Embassy of the Swiss Conference», as well as from foreign representations of Finland, France, Lithuania and Kazakhstan in Russia. In addition, according to the extract, funds were transferred to the account of the Republic from the correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, a branch of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Kazakh company Eurasia Metals Company.
“As we expected, the formal reason is payment subscriptions by foreign legal entities such as the embassies of France or Kazakhstan, the Wall Street Journal office, etc., in the amount of 14,800 rubles per year.
In just two years, the Ministry of Justice found “foreign funding” for 178,500 rubles — we calculated this is something about 0.18% of the turnover,” Kolezev said.