Alexey Raksha

Foreign agent

2025

30.05.2025

Took part in creating and disseminating reports and materials of foreign agents for an unlimited circle of persons, as well as in disseminating reports and materials of an organization included into the register of foreign and international organizations whose activity has been deemed undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation. Disseminated fake information on the rulings made by bodies of public power of the Russian Federation and their policy. (During the hearing of Alexey Raksha's claim in court, a representative of the Ministry of Justice said that the dissemination of fake information was not a reason to include him into the register of foreign agents.) According to the Telegram channel "Beware, News," among the posts deemed grounds for assigning "foreign agent" status was criticism of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, whom Raksha accused of "not understanding even the most basic principles of demography and unable to explain them to Putin," , as well as statements about measures to increase the birth rate and the concealment of statistics: the scientist argued that the "maternity capital" system only works for the birth of one child per family, and therefore the measures discussed on television—"we need to ban abortions, ban pregnant women from leaving the country, make divorces more difficult, and other such cruel and harmful cringe"—are due to the fact that there are no other measures. Raksha claimed that the main problem is the high mortality rate of middle-aged men, but statistics on this are classified. Furthermore, the demographer was accused of consulting with other individuals designated as "foreign agents."