Russia's Ministry of Justice has added publicist and political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky and journalist Ilya Shepelin to the register of "foreign agents." According to Meduza, the register also includes Yevgeny Kochegin, former coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Volgograd; Kirill Sedov, host of "Khodorkovsky Live"; and Yuri Fedorov, a military expert.
According to the Russian Ministry of Justice, they were involved, among other things, in disseminating materials of "foreign agents," working for them or "interacting" with them, spreading "unreliable information" about the policies of the Russian authorities, and speaking out against the "special operation" in Ukraine.
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