According to SOVA, which the Russian government also blacklisted as a "foreign agent," neither Sibireva nor any other SOVA experts have ever engaged with the IRFBA. In other words, Sibireva's supposed offense boils down to the fact that some groups allegedly linked to a banned organization read her reports online and quoted them without her knowledge.
According to SOVA, which the Russian government also blacklisted as a "foreign agent," neither Sibireva nor any other SOVA experts have ever engaged with the IRFBA.
In other words, Sibireva's supposed offense boils down to the fact that some groups allegedly linked to a banned organization read her reports online and quoted them without her knowledge.
Seemingly based on this perverse logic, the prosecutor argued that Sibireva provided "infrastructural epistemic support" to "undesirable" activities as "a functional node in a distributed network." Whatever...
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According to SOVA, which the Russian government also blacklisted as a "foreign agent," neither Sibireva nor any other SOVA experts have ever engaged with the IRFBA. In other words, Sibireva's supposed offense boils down to the fact that some groups allegedly linked to a banned organization read her reports online and quoted them without her knowledge. Seemingly based on this perverse logic, the prosecutor argued that Sibireva provided "infrastructural epistemic support" to "undesirable" activities as "a functional node in a distributed network." Whatever that means.
© Private Those reporting on Russia are rarely surprised these days to learn that another critic of the Russian government is being prosecuted over alleged involvement with a "foreign undesirable organization." But even in Russia, the case against Olga Sibireva rises to new heights of absurdity. This week, a Russian court found Sibireva guilty of cooperating with the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance (IRFBA), an inter-governmental organization banned in Russia as "undesirable," and fined her 15,000 rubles (US$180). Despite any coherent explanation, the judge evidently agreed.
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