Since 2013, she has been engaged in art activism: she held environmental and feminist exhibitions, an anti-militarist festival and founded the creative association «Rodina», which existed for five years. Later she taught Russian at the Red Cross, and after the program was closed in 2018, she launched the Russian as Simple project — free Russian language lessons for adult migrants and refugees. In recent years, she has been increasingly engaged in feminist art: in 2019, she released two children’s books of feminist fairy tales.
Name
Apakhonchich Darya Alexandrovna
Field of activity
Socio-educational initatives and projects
Status
«Foreign agent» (individual media)
Reason for recognition
Information for the possible inclusion of Daria Apakhonchich in the register of mass media "foreign agents" has come to the Ministry of Justice from the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor. With the help of Center E, the Prosecutor's Office checked the flow of funds in Apakhonchich's bank accounts and sent a certificate of her foreign financing to the Ministry of Justice. Her lawyer said that the account numbers are not specified in the certificate, and the word "about" is used in writing the amount. The prosecutor's office also mentioned that Apakhonchich had disseminated "information materials of a political nature" on the Internet. In addition, according to the Ministry, Apakhonchich posted materials on the websites of Radio Svoboda, previously was listed as a "foreign agent".
Apakhonchich has noted that the status was given to her because of salaries from a French college and the Red Cross, fees for festivals and other transfers, and "political activities" found in her posts and reposts.
Year of recognition
2020
Status description
Since 2019, this register includes those individuals who, in the opinion of the Russian government:
a) publicly disseminate messages and materials created by a media-foreign agent, or participate in the creation of such materials,
b) receive foreign funding (money or property).
A person may be declared «foreign agent» if he/she reposts materials from a foreign media outlet, writes materials for it, publishes joint materials (for example, journalistic investigations), provides some data, prepares drawings, participates in the creation of a video or even gives comments as an expert, and at the same time has any income from a foreign source.
Who recognizes:
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Responsibilities and Limitations:
An individual who is recognized as a foreign agent media is obliged to send to the Ministry of Justice a report on the expenditure of funds, including those received from foreign sources, and every six months publicly post a report on his activities on the Internet or provide to Russian media for publication. In addition, individuals included in this register must register a legal entity in Russia that receives the status of an NPO-foreign agent. The report on the activities of this NPO also needs to be submitted to the Ministry of Justice.
Administrative liability:
Violation of the order of activity after being recognized a foreign agent — a fine of 10 thousand rubles. A gross violation is threatened with a fine of five million rubles. (Article 19.34.1. of the Code of Administrative Offences)
Criminal liability:
If an individual-media-foreign agent does not fulfill the obligations required by law and has previously been held administratively liable because of this, a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to two years (part 2 of article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).