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updated October 3 · RSSA military court convicted 57-year-old Mikhail Antonovich of "financing terrorism": he left paid reactions in the channels of Naki, Nevzorov and Shpak.
A military court gave him 15 years in a strict-regime colony for graffiti in a lift and comments supporting the Freedom of Russia Legion, under treason and justifying-terrorism charges.
The journalist has been added to the list, so his bank transactions in Russia will be blocked.
Moscow's Simonovsky court is hearing the case under Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code. The defence says Fishman is being prosecuted for his journalism.
The list now includes a German foundation supporting ethnic Germans, the Ukrainian civic education centre Almenda and a British organisation.
The case is based on a 2024 video. Shpak, previously sentenced in absentia to 8 years over "fakes", will be charged in absentia.
The Memorial Political Prisoners Support project says the public list of Stars senders is a vulnerability that security forces use to open terrorism financing cases.
The Murmansk "foreign agent" journalist is accused of breaking the "foreign agent" rules and taking part in an "undesirable" organisation.
Alexander Pavlov says that after he tried to photograph the election commission's notice board, police beat him and shocked him more than 20 times.
The musician, who has a disability and was convicted over posts criticising the Kremlin, described pressure in the penal colony and asked to be put on the exchange lists.
The ministry said the director had worked with "foreign agents" and "undesirable" organisations. Several other people were added to the list at the same time.
The journalist, whose outlet is designated "undesirable", has been added to the wanted database.
The court ruled that the transfers to the blogger amounted to financing extremism.
The journalist and daughter of Boris Nemtsov has been put on the international wanted list in a criminal case.