The publicist Oleg Kashin, who lives in London, has been added to the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mediazona noted.
This means that a criminal case has been opened against him in Russia in absentia. The specific article of the Criminal Code and other details are not given in the database.
The numbers of Kaliningrad police officers are indicated there as contact numbers, including from the police department in the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad, where the publicist is registered.
Sam Kashin told Mediazona that he had not previously known about his persecution. He suggested that we could be talking about a criminal article for “foreign agents” (330.1 of the Criminal Code).
To do this, it is necessary that the person is fined twice within a year under the administrative article for “foreign agents”.
After the Ministry of Justice added Oleg Kashin to the register of “foreign agents” in the summer of 2022, a court in Kaliningrad imposed six such fines on him, including three in the last year.
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