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Vera Afanasyeva

Vera Afanasyeva
Date of incident: November 15, 2024
Type of violation: recognized as a foreign agent
Institution: Blogger

Summary: On November 15, 2024, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared Vera Afanasyeva a foreign agent, with reference to the agency’s website Mediazona reports.

Details: On July 12, 2019, in Saratov, the election commission refused to register Vera Afanasyeva, a candidate from the Yabloko party, in the elections to the City Duma. The reason was the allegedly invalid signatures that she collected in her support. At the same time as the signature collection, Afanasyeva was fired from Saratov University, where she was a professor in the philosophy department, the Yabloko party website reported.

Vera Afanasyeva is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, doctor of philosophical sciences, professor, professor at the Saratov National Research State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky (until 2019). She runs the Telegram channel “Gorod Glupov”.

Sources: Mediazona, RBC.

15 November 2024

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