Shiyes environmental activist, defrocked priest and economist: the Ministry of Justice has updated the list of ‘foreign agents’

The Ministry of Justice has added four more people and two projects to the list of ‘foreign agents,’ the department’s website reports.

This time, the list includes:

• theologian and former Moscow diocese Russian Orthodox Church clergyman Sergei Govorun;
• economist and Harvard University professor Oleg Itskhoki;
• blogger Vladimir Smolin;
• blogger and activist Anna Stepanova, who campaigned against the construction of a landfill site in Shiyes;
• the online resource ‘Kompromat 1’;
• the online project ‘Om TV’ run by Ukrainian journalist Sergei Omelchuk.

According to the Ministry of Justice, all of them spoke out against the war in Ukraine and distributed material from other ‘foreign agents.’

Additionally, the Typografia Contemporary Art Centre in Krasnodar, a major city in southern Russia, was removed from the register due to its liquidation.