Journalist and blogger Yury Dud has been added to Russia’s list of terrorists and extremists maintained by the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), according to Russian media.
Dud was designated a foreign agent by Russia’s Justice Ministry in 2022.
He was arrested in absentia and placed on an interstate wanted list after a criminal case was opened against him based on materials from an investigation by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the investigation, 39-year-old Dud was fined twice within a year for violating the rules governing the activities of foreign agents under Part 4 of Article 19.34 of Russia’s Code of Administrative Offences. Despite the penalties, he continued distributing materials on a messaging platform without the required foreign-agent label, in violation of Russian law.
In 2024, Dud stopped using the foreign-agent designation on his YouTube channel.
By Jeyhun Aghazada
