The life of Daria Apakhontchich, 35, changed on December 28. That day, the friends of this Russian professor from Saint Petersburg, who was also a feminist activist, called her to tell her a piece of news that left her speechless: according to the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice, she has just been added to the list of
"foreign agents"
.
"I was in shock, I could not believe that it concerned me
,"
this mother of two children aged six and sixteen
confides in
Le Figaro
.
I inquired, and I learned that according to a brand new law, any person receiving foreign currency - scholarship, subsidy, gift, salaries for courses, fees ... -, and who moreover carries out a public activity , can be found on this list of foreign agents. "
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The law is indeed recent.
Voted by both chambers of the Russian Parliament in November, it was signed by Vladimir Putin on December 2.
According to this text, the ministries of
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