{"id":537192,"date":"2026-07-12T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537192\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:59:18","slug":"anti-war-politician-boris-nadezhdin-branded-foreign-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537192\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-War Politician Boris Nadezhdin Branded \u2018Foreign Agent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Justice Ministry on Friday<a href=\"https:\/\/minjust.gov.ru\/ru\/pages\/reestr-inostryannykh-agentov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> designated<\/a> Boris Nadezhdin, the anti-war politician who was blocked from running in Russia\u2019s 2024 presidential election, as a \u201cforeign agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The designation comes nearly a month after Nadezhdin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/BorisNadezhdin\/2218?single\" rel=\"nofollow\">submitted<\/a> documents to run for Russia\u2019s lower-house State Duma in September. Foreign agents are barred from running for any elected office under Russian law.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Ministry<a href=\"https:\/\/minjust.gov.ru\/ru\/events\/51344\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> accused<\/a> Nadezhdin of creating and distributing messages and materials from other \u201cforeign agents,\u201d while also helping create content for \u201cundesirable\u201d organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spread false information about the Russian government\u2019s decisions and policies, and about Russia\u2019s electoral system,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cHe also called on people to take part in unauthorized rallies and pickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides Nadezhdin, the Justice Ministry on Friday also applied the\u00a0\u201cforeign agent\u201d designation to a campaign coordinating office directly affiliated with him, Arctic tourism development expert Timofey Rogozhin and opposition YouTube channel host Yekaterina Voropay.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of cultural figures, journalists, businesspeople, as well as news outlets and organizations, have been branded \u201cforeign agents\u201d since Russia introduced the label in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Russia applies the designation to individuals it views as enemies of the state. Those branded as \u201cforeign agents\u201d are required to include a lengthy disclaimer in all of their public appearances and statements, including posts on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Justice Ministry on Friday designated Boris Nadezhdin, the anti-war politician who was blocked from running in Russia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[244818,244817,42,76085,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-537192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-boris-nadezhdin","tag-foreign-agents","tag-headlines","tag-justice-ministry","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}