MOSCOW. Feb 14 (Interfax) - The Russian Justice Ministry has included Lev Gudkov, former director of Levada Center (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia), in the register of foreign agents, information published on the ministry's website on Friday says.
"Gudkov was involved in the creation for an unlimited range of persons of messages and materials of foreign agents, disseminated false information on decisions made by Russian bodies of public authority and their policies. He spoke against the special military operation in Ukraine," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry has also included in the list of foreign agents writer and publicist Sergei Auslender, former diplomat Boris Bondarev, journalist Nikita Parmenov, and blogger Alexei Kungurov.
They are charged with the same actions.
Bondarev, Kungurov and Parmenov live abroad.