The Ministry of Justice in Moscow announced on Friday that the former head of Russian diplomacy Andrej Kozyrev described as the so -called. foreign agent. Reuters informed about it, writes TASR.
The first post -Soviet Foreign Minister Kozyrev (74) has been living in the United States since 2010. He was the head of Russian diplomacy during the reign of former President Boris Yeltsin after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Later he openly criticized President Vladimir Putin’s policy and military invasion in Ukraine. Shortly after the beginning of the war in 2022, he called for former colleagues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to resign in protest.
The Ministry of Justice accused him of spreading false information about the Russian government’s policy and the Russian army in the statement. Also pointed out his disagreement with “A special military operation”, as Moscow officially calls the invasion in Ukraine, and its alleged cooperation with “foreign platforms”.
Kozyrev said in response that The decision points to the “stupidity of this regime”. “I am glad to join the noble people who have also described as foreign agents,“Declared” declared. People and organizations that the authorities in Russia as “Foreign agents’, must be identified in this way in all publications and on social networks, reminded Reuters. Their public activities are limited and are also obliged to submit detailed reports of their finances.
