Russia is in the process of expanding the justifications for listing on the list of “clients abroad”

The President of the Russian Duma (Representatives), Viacislav Vulodin, announced today, Thursday, that members of the Council have prepared three legislative proposals that tighten control over the personalities and entities classified by the Russian Ministry of Justice “agents abroad”.

The proposals posted by Voluden on his channel on “Telegram” require the expansion of the justifications to include names on the list of “clients”, to include those who provide aid in implementing the decisions of international organizations in which Russia, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued the arrest warrant for the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, for the displacement of Ukrainian children. The justifications for listing on the “clients” list also include providing aid to the authorities of foreign countries “in the acts directed against Russia’s security” and involving others in collecting data “in the field of military -technical business” that may be used to damage Prussia.

Moreover, the deputies suggested that in absentia trials against “agents abroad” and Russian citizens abroad without their participation in the event that their cases are related to charges of “calls for terrorism and extremism” and to publish “false news about the army” and “restoring consideration to Nazism” and others.

The concept of “the agent abroad” for the first time in Russian law in 2012 was approved with the tightening of restrictions on their names on their list repeatedly in the recent period, as Douma approved the first reading in early March, on a draft law prepared by deputies from the Duma Committee to investigate the facts of foreign countries’ interference in Russian internal affairs, stretching restrictions in the field of practicing educational work by amending the “Education Law in Russia” by applying the ban on the application Providing “customers” educational services to all age groups and not only for minors, as is the case now.

At the end of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law to create special bank accounts to transfer money, including the value of the sale and rental of real estate, the returns of banking deposits and intellectual works, to the “clients” who will not be able to dispose of them until after their names were removed from the list. The Russian list of “clients abroad” includes today, by a group of prominent names for political, media and artistic figures, the most famous of whom is the satirical artist, Maxim Galkin, the husband of the Russian pop queen Ala Bogachova, the blogger and the most famous Russian axis on “YouTube”, Yuri Dod, the number of views on his channel more than two billion, and the founder of the “Time Machine” band, Andre McCarvich, novelist André Akunin, and other figures who opposed the Russian open war in Ukraine explicit opposition since its early days three years ago.