INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian authorities have actually taken the possessions of Pyotr Kanayev, the chief editor of the leading service everyday RBC, over a
postponed payment of a fine for offense of Russias foreign agent law, the publication confirmed Thursday
Kanayev had been fined 5,000 rubles ($66) for failing to add a foreign representative label next to a mention of Russia-based think tank
SOVA in an article released by the business daily
Representatives of Russias Federal Service of Court Bailiffs, the law-enforcement arm of Russias judiciary, confiscated Kanayevs Moscow home
and summer home after he supposedly delayed paying the fine
I get a great deal of such fines all the time and could miss one
Typically, they are automatically subtracted from my income, RBC priced quote Kanayev as stating
But I find the choice to detain my house and summer season house since of a debt of 5,000 rubles inexplicably excessive offered the
disproportionate scale of the infraction and the penalty, he added
Russias foreign agent guidelines, implemented since March 2021, need the media to specify if a company mentioned in an article has
actually been contributed to the countrys list of so-called foreign agents.Violation of the law is punishable by a fine of up to 5,000
rubles for officials and up to 50,000 rubles ($660) for legal entities.Russias foreign agent law has actually been utilized to target
Kremlin critics, independent reporters and civil society members recently, requiring them to disclose their foreign agent status alongside
any public reference of their name.
