The Ministry of Justice added to the register of “foreign agents” links to social networks of people who are not recognized as “foreign agents.” Moscow politician Elvira Vikhareva drew attention to this.
So, in the list of links to the pages of investigator Andrei Zakharov, the Ministry of Justice indicated the VKontakte account of Anton Zakharov from the American state of Florida. A clone of his telegram channel was added to journalist Sergei Parkhomenko, to which subscribers about 500 users. An employee of the Sota publication Andrei Afanasyev was blamed for the broken website.
According to Vikhareva, in her case the department indicated “the Facebook and Instagram of some other Vikhareva,” “a caring mother of many children who lived and knew nothing about politics.”
On May 18, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree according to which the Ministry of Justice must include the domain names of their information resources, if any, in the list of “foreign agents.”
On May 31, the Ministry of Justice updated the register of “foreign agents” for the first time since April — it included the movement of wives of mobilized “Way Home” and its founder Maria Andreeva, as well as human rights activist Marina Litvinovich and journalist Ekaterina Duntsova, who tried to register for Russian presidential elections.