{"id":103874,"date":"2025-05-15T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103874\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:45:15","slug":"russian-court-fines-meduza-nearly-5000-for-violating-foreign-agent-law-meduza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103874\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court fines Meduza nearly $5,000 for violating \u2018foreign agent\u2019 law \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">A Moscow court has fined Medusa Project SIA 400,000 rubles (almost $5,000) for \u201cviolating the procedure for the activities of a foreign agent.\u201d The Telegram channel of Moscow\u2019s courts of general jurisdiction, which reported the ruling, did not disclose the specific basis for the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">Meduza was <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/cards\/want-to-help-sustain-meduza-here-s-how-it-works\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designated<\/a> a \u201cforeign agent media outlet\u201d in Russia on April 23, 2021. In the years since, numerous independent media outlets, journalists, public figures, and cultural workers have been added to the \u201cforeign agent\u201d registry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">In January 2023, Russia\u2019s Prosecutor General\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/cards\/life-after-undesirability\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> Meduza an \u201cundesirable organization,\u201d claiming it \u201cposes a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and the security of the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Moscow court has fined Medusa Project SIA 400,000 rubles (almost $5,000) for \u201cviolating the procedure for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,7888,7883,7886,7875,7868,7880,7870,7881,7887,7876,7864,7871,7865,7873,7874,7866,7869,7867,7885,7879,7872,7884,7882,7878,7877],"class_list":{"0":"post-103874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-7888","10":"tag-7883","11":"tag-7886","12":"tag-7875","13":"tag-7868","14":"tag-7880","15":"tag-7870","16":"tag-7881","17":"tag-7887","18":"tag-7876","19":"tag-7864","20":"tag-7871","21":"tag-7865","22":"tag-7873","23":"tag-7874","24":"tag-7866","25":"tag-7869","26":"tag-7867","27":"tag-7885","28":"tag-7879","29":"tag-7872","30":"tag-7884","31":"tag-7882","32":"tag-7878","33":"tag-7877"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114512627253593809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}