In Russia against "Inagent" opened criminal proceedings because of "failure to fulfill duties"

The Tver activist who has escaped abroad from the Russian Federation can get 2 years for not marking himself on the social network as an "inagent". In Russia, criminal proceedings were opened against the activist with Tver Artem Vazhenkov, who went abroad. The man was accused of not referring himself to a "foreign agent", publishing posts on social networks. The activist himself told about it.

"I just learned that I was opened criminal proceedings because I do not follow the rules of a foreign agent. I associate, in particular, with the fact that I am actively engaged in exposing the existence of such a shameful phenomenon as inagents in the Russian Federation", Said the Russian. Artem Vazhenkov became the first in Russia a person involved in a criminal case on "failure to fulfill the duties of an inagent" (Article 330. 1.

Evidence of the performance of the duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents). According to Russian human rights activist Pavlo Chikov, Vazhenkov was declared an "inagent" because he bought a ticket for an unknown person for unused "aviation" and received payment for the miles spent from a citizen of Nigeria Florence. In the Ministry of Justice, it was called foreign funding.

In March 2022, he was fined 10 thousand rubles for non-marked post on Instagram, in August 2022-for 50 thousand rubles for non-marked posts in his Telegram channel. The activist himself left Russia. He is in emigration and regularly interviews from other "inagents". The evasion of the performance of the "inagent" in the Russian Federation is punishable by a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or a sentence of up to two years.

On January 13, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared "foreign agents" of actor Arthur Smolyaninov and music critic by Artemy Troitsky. Also in the ranks of "Inagents" in the Russian Federation were included in the expert headquarters of the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest, exsecutor Sergey Kirsanov and lawyer Anatoly Fursova. On February 10, the List of "Inagents" included singer Zemfir Ramazanov (better known as Zemfira).