Content |
History
2023: Recognition by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent
On November 17, 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the first time included in the list of foreign agents of the VPN service provider - Hidemy.network. At the same time, the status of a foreign agent was not assigned to her for her provider activities.
As Kommersant writes with reference to the materials of the Ministry of Justice, Hidemy.network Ltd., registered in Belize, took part in the distribution of messages and materials of foreign agents for an unlimited number of persons, in particular, "disseminated inaccurate information about decisions taken by the public authorities of the Russian Federation and their policies," and also carried out actions aimed at "forming a negative image of the state authorities of the Russian Federation."
The leading lawyer of the Roskomsvoboda organization (included by the Ministry of Justice in the list of foreign agents) Sarkis Darbinyan, who represents the interests of Hidemy.network in court, suggests that the company could have received the status of a foreign agent because of the messages that it posts on its Telegram channel (has 15.2 thousand subscribers).
 | Its administrators did reposts of messages from other foreign agents. Perhaps this is the formal reason why Hidemy.network received the status of a foreign agent, "he said. |  |
The head of the "Resolution of IT&IP disputes" department of the law firm "Rustam Kurmaev and Partners" Yaroslav Shitsle, in a conversation with the newspaper, suggested that making payments in favor of a foreign agent, for example, paying subscriptions for using the service, could become the basis for assigning the status of a foreign agent to the payer.
On November 12, 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation explained that only specific VPN services will be blocked in Russia, which the expert commission will determine as threatening the functioning of the Internet.[1]
Notes
| The site content is translated by machine translation software powered by PROMT. The machine-translated articles are not always perfect and may contain errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. Read original article If you find inaccuracies or errors in the results of machine translation, please write to editor@tadviser.ru. We will make every effort to correct them as soon as possible. |