The Russian Ministry of Justice has added nine people to this list which now includes more than 140 media and personalities.
“Foreign agents” are subject to numerous constraints and tedious procedures, under threat of heavy penalties.
In particular, they must indicate this status in all their publications.
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Among the newcomers, we find, among others, the Youtubeur Yuri Doud, a journalist famous throughout Russia for his interviews and documentaries tackling sensitive subjects such as repressions or authoritarian excesses in Russia.
In 2020, he interviewed opponent Alexei Navalny, now imprisoned in Russia, and his wife Yulia.
A caricaturist, Sergei Elkine, renowned for his cartoons making fun of Russian power, has also joined the list of "foreign agents", as well as an influential liberal political scientist, Ekaterina Schulmann.
"Of course, I expected
it," she told AFP.
An investigative journalist, Roman Dobrokhotov, creator of the Russian media
The Insider
, and an LGBT rights activist, Karen Chainian, are now also "foreign agents".
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In September 2021, Roman Dobrokhotov confirmed that he had left Russia to avoid prosecution.
On April 12, Ekaterina Schulmann for her part indicated, on Youtube, that she had gone to Germany after having had a scientific grant in Berlin.
The cartoonist Sergei Elkin announced the next day on Facebook that he too had left Russia.
Since the Russian offensive in Ukraine, dozens of members of the Russian intellectual elite and journalists have left the country, while the power is intensifying its pressure intensively against the last media and critical voices.