Week-ending 15 October 2021 Novaya gazeta reported on 12 October 2021 that the first lawsuits have been brought against individual journalists and human rights activists for failing to comply with…
Week-ending 8 October 2021 This week the 'foreign agent' law was used to brand three organisations and nine individuals as 'foreign agents'. The organisations are the investigative group Bellingcat, which…
Week-ending 1 October 2021 This week the FSB published a 60-item list of information concerning Russia's military, space agency and security services that, while not classified as state secrets, 'foreign…
Week-ending 24 September 2021 On 17 September 2021 a district court in Nizhny Novgorod convicted human rights defender Igor Kalyapin of 'participation in the activities of an undesirable organization' under…
Week-ending 17 September 2021 A federal law (No. 123-FZ) adopted in April 2020 entitled “On Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence” has allowed Moscow authorities to test facial recognition, and other new technologies,…
Week-ending 10 September 2021 On 4 September 2021 the Russian ministry of justice designated four more media outlets as 'foreign agents'. These were: Altair 2021 LLC, Vega 2021 LLC, Editor-in-Chief…
Week-ending 3 September 2021 This week (on 30 August 2021) Article 236 of the Russian Criminal Code, 'Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules', was used to sentence Moscow municipal lawmaker…
Week-ending 30 July 2021 This week the authorities again used the 'foreign agent' laws to punish and intimidate journalists. On 28 July 2021 police raided the apartment of Roman Dobrokhotov,…
Week-ending 23 July 2021 The impact of the law on 'undesirable foreign organisations' has continued to be felt this week. The association of human rights lawyers and activists Team 29…
Week-ending 16 July 2021 On 12 July 2021 prominent columnist from Ekaterinburg, Fedor Krasheninnikov, said he was in Vilnius and intended to remain there for the coming time. Krasheninnikov had…