The Ministry of Justice supplemented the list of foreign agents with the independent literary award "DAR". The updated register is available on the official portal of the department.
Lawyer Dmitry Grabatov**, media manager, former owner of a number of Russian media Demyan Kudryavtsev, film critic Zinaida Pronchenko and journalist, former host of the TV program "Top Secret" Andrey Kalitin are also endowed with the status of a foreign agent.
All new foreign agents, including the "DAR" award, opposed Russia's special military operation on In Ukraine, participated in the creation or dissemination of materials by foreign agents, spread fakes about decisions taken by public authorities of the Russian Federation and their policies.
Grabatov** acts as a project manager who conducts collections to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine; distributes false information aimed at creating a negative image of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and also participates in the creation and dissemination of materials of foreign and international organizations whose activities are considered undesirable on the territory of Russia.
Kalitin and Pronchenko is cooperating with a foreign agent.
The "GIFT" award is also charged with the dissemination of false information aimed at creating a negative image RF Armed Forces. In addition, the founder of the award is a foreign organization, co—founders are persons included in the register of foreign agents.
All of these citizens live outside the Russian Federation.
As EADaily reported, a week earlier, a military blogger, a former adviser to the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Alekhine*, was first included in the register of foreign agents.
*An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent
**An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING