Andrey Illarionov - Justice for Journalists

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Andrey Illarionov

Affiliated media: Publicist, Blogger

Incident date: August 18, 2023

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has declared publicist Andrey Illarionov a «foreign agent». It justified this by the fact that he allegedly distributed materials of other «foreign agents». Illarionov lives in the United States and was Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser in 2000-2005.