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The Ministry of Justice has added four more people and two organisations to the list of “foreign agents,” according to the agency’s website.

This time, the list includes:

  • pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov;
  • streamer Dmitry Nyuberg;
  • historian and Buryat activist Radzhana Dugarova;
  • priest Andrey Kordochkin, who has been banned from service due to his anti-war stance;
  • the Alif television channel, which covers Muslim life;
  • the Tamizdat publishing house.

According to the Justice Ministry’s news release, political analyst Markov gave interviews as a respondent on foreign media platforms and “foreign agents,” and also spread false information about decisions made by the Russian authorities.

Markov considers his inclusion on the “foreign agents” list to be a mistake. He said: “It seems to me that this is some kind of slander, because, well, firstly, I am not a foreign agent, and secondly, I have not had any contacts. Well, sometimes mistakes can… happen. I know nothing about this,” he told the outlet Ostorozhno Media.

In addition, today the Ministry of Justice removed the Silver Taiga Sustainable Development Support Fund from the “foreign agents” register, as it has ceased operations. The organisation was founded in 2002 on the basis of the Syktyvkar branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and worked on forest protection. In 2017, it was designated as a “foreign agent.”