Russia’s Justice Ministry on Wednesday officially branded resistance leader Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption set a”foreign agent”, the RIA news agency reported.
Russian government can designate classes it states get financing from overseas as foreign agents — a phrase that conveys a negative Soviet-era connotation — beneath a 2012 law which has been greatly criticized by Western governments.
Civil society groups made as overseas agents need to apply for inclusion at a government enroll, submit periodic reports on their resources of financing, on their goals, on how they invest their cash, and their supervisors are.
