Veronika Belotserkovskaya

Affiliated media: Sobaka.ru, Blogger, Ex-publisher

Incident date: July 22, 2022

Attack type:

Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

TV host Tatyana Lazareva was included in the register of «foreign agents». Along with her, oppositionists Ilya Yashin and Ruslan Shaveddinov, bloggers Maxim Katz and Veronika Belotserkovskaya became «foreign agents». All the new «foreign agents» have Ukraine listed as their funding country.

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