The Russian Interior Ministry on September 5 added self-exiled military observer Yan Matveyev to its wanted list on unspecified charges. In May 2023, the Justice Ministry added Matveyev to the list of "foreign agents." Matveyev has refused to follow the law requirements to mark his online materials as made by a foreign agent. Russian courts fined him twice in absentia for refusing to comply. According to the law on foreign agents, a repeated violation of the law within one year may lead to a criminal case. Russian authorities have been accused of using the law on foreign agents to muzzle independent media and dissent. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Russia Adds Self-Exiled Military Observer Yan Matveyev To Its Wanted List
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