From March 1, hard times are coming for foreign agents in Russia
The Federation Council adopted a bill on fines imposed on foreign agents, approved the day before by the State Duma in the second and third readings.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, accepted changes The Code of Administrative Offenses allows a foreign agent NGO to be fined up to five million rubles if a legal entity conducts illegal activities.
If an NPO conducts its activities without labeling itself as a foreign agent, the fine will reach 100-300 thousand rubles.
“The innovations that are proposed are a punishment not for the activities carried out by so-called foreign agents, but for the evasion by these individuals of the simple rules that we have already established. These rules boil down to the need for timely registration and labeling of products that they produce on their own behalf or on behalf of the organizations where they are located.
All this is listed in the documents we have already adopted. The proposed additions to the Administrative Code consider measures such as a warning, an administrative fine and the possibility in certain cases of confiscation of the subject of an administrative offense. The federal law itself assumes entry into force on March 1, 2021,” said Andrei Klimov, a member of the Federation Council who presented the bill.
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