MOSCOW. Aug 30 (Interfax) - The Russian Justice Ministry has put Galina Timchenko, the publisher of the Meduza project, designated earlier as a foreign agent and an undesirable organization in Russia, on its register of foreign agents.
The ministry said in its statement on Friday that Timchenko has been involved "in distributing reports and materials of foreign agents among an unidentified number of persons, spoken against the special military operation in Ukraine, and circulated inaccurate information on decisions made by the Russian Federation's public authorities and the policy they pursue."
Timchenko lives outside of Russia.
The ministry also designated as foreign agents lawyer Yelena Lukyanova, an autonomous nonprofit organization of informational and legal services called Civic Initiative Against Environmental Crimes, and the Coalition Novosibirsk 2020 association of individuals.
The Justice Ministry on April 23, 2021 placed the Medusa Project publications (Meduza) on its list of media outlets acting as foreign agents. According to the register, Meduza is a legal entity registered in the Republic of Latvia in 2014 (SIA Medusa Project).
In October 2021, the Moscow City Court dismissed the publication's appeal against its designation as a foreign agent.
In January 2023, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office designated the project as undesirable in Russia. Meduza's informational resources are currently blocked on Russian territory.