Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev was fined for the lack of marking of a foreign agent in social networks for 10 thousand rubles due to the lack of appropriate labeling in social networks. The information about the fine was confirmed to RBC in the reception of the chairman of the Khoroshevsky court in Moscow.
The human rights activist himself explained that he was fined for reposts, in which he did not indicate that he was entered in the register of the Ministry of Justice. “I will definitely appeal. They did not hesitate to write a completely illiterate phrase that Lev Ponomarev is a media foreign agent. They are accustomed to this, but this is an absurd grammatical construction, “he stressed.
The human rights activist assured that he always indicates when writing articles about the status of a media-foreign agent. He wonders why such marking is necessary for repost.
Roskomnadzor initiated an administrative case against Ponomarev in mid-October under Part 1 of Article 19.34.1 of the Administrative Code. The ministry explained that the reason was the lack of marking in 24 posts on Facebook, 13 on Twitter and two posts on an Instagram account.
In December 2020, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included the first five individuals, including Ponomarev, in the register of media-foreign agents. In addition to him, Daria Apakhonchich, Denis Kamalyagin, Sergey Markelov and Lyudmila Savitskaya were included in this register.
The Dozhd TV channel (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of media performing the functions of a foreign agent) announced that he plans to appeal the decision to be included in the list of foreign media agents.