Journalist and blogger Mikhail Zygar* He filed a complaint requesting that his status as a foreign agent be removed before the Second Court of Cassation.
“An appeal was received from Zygar Mikhail Viktorovich*. No date has been set for the review.” – the court’s press service told RIA Novosti.
The journalist believes that information about his receipt of funding from foreign sources is unacceptable evidence for his inclusion in the register of foreign media agents, and the status itself “discredits him in the eyes of society and individual citizens,” and that the state “never registered him as a mass media outlet,” the documents state.
As reported EADailyZygar* He was included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of individual foreign agents in October 2022. The agency indicated that he participated in the creation and distribution of materials by foreign agents and also received foreign funding.
For not flagging a foreign agent when posting on social media Zygar* He was fined twice with 30 thousand rubles.
Also, at the end of July this year Zygar* He was found guilty under paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation).
According to the verdict of the Basmanny court, he was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony with a ban on managing websites for 4 years.
Prior to this, he had been placed on a wanted list and arrested in absentia.
*An individual who performs the functions of a foreign agent.
