Putin is wrong: Russia’s president says there are no felony penalties for ‘foreign agent’ noncompliance, but that’s simply untrue

During a public conference with Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dmitry Muratov complained that Russia's "foreign agent" legislation is enforced "extrajudicially," prompting the president's latest comparison to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in the United States, which the Kremlin (inaccurately) calls "analogous." Putin went on to argue that FARA is even harsher legislation than the regulations Russia recently began imposing on so-called "foreign agents." Notably, the president claimed that "foreign agents" risk felony charges in the U.S. but not in Russia. Mr. Putin is mistaken. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/10/22/putin-is-wrong