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[TASS] The Russian Ministry of Justice has included nine journalists and three companies, including the owner of Bellingcat, on the register of foreign media agents. TASS was informed about this on Friday in the press service of the Ministry of Justice.
"On October 8, 2021, in pursuance of the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation, Galina Yurievna Arapova, Tatyana Anatolyevna Voltskaya, Andrey Vyacheslavovich Zakharov, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Klepikovskaya, Roman Perl Perl, Evgeny Alekseevich Simonov, Elena Solovieva were included in the register of foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent. Anatolyevna, Daniil Vladimirovich Sotnikov, Elizaveta Dmitrievna Surnacheva, "the message says.
The register also includes MEMO LLC, the American company Mason GES Anonymous Foundation, which is the owner of the online publication mnews.world, and Stichting Bellingcat, registered in the Netherlands on July 11, 2018.
Among the journalists are former and current employees of the Russian service of the BBC, Dozhd, Nastostvennoye Vremya, 7x7, Radio Liberty.
In total, 85 individuals and legal entities are currently in the register of foreign media agents. The law on foreign media agents in Russia was passed in 2017 after the US Department of Justice required RT America (a branch of a Russian television company) to register as a foreign agent in the United States.
The same requirements were applied to media-foreign agents as to non-profit organizations - foreign agents. They are obliged to provide data on the personnel of the management, expenditure of funds, audit, as well as label their materials with an indication of the status of the media-foreign agent. 
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