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Russia sentences French ‘foreign agent’

October 15, 2024 GOVERNMENT, WORLD 2

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ER Editor: MSM sources are calling him a ‘researcher’. We know by now that NGO’s, one of which employed him, are usually a front for something else entirely. Wouldn’t this NGO know Russian law (a new one from 2022) on their employees’ behalf? Some tweets —

Translation: French spy Laurent Vinatier accused in Russia: he admits his guilt Laurent Vinatier worked for NATO and then under the cover of an NGO based in Geneva for the Eurasia and Russia program “Humanitarian Dialogue”.

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Russia sentences French ‘foreign agent’

Laurent Vinatier pleaded guilty to two felony charges

RT

A French national has been found guilty of failing to register as a foreign agent by a Moscow court and sentenced to three years in prison.

Laurent Vinatier worked for the Swiss NGO ‘Center for Humanitarian Dialogue’ as an adviser on Russia and Eurasia. He was arrested in June, after the Russian Ministry of Justice designated him a foreign agent.

Russia sentences French ‘foreign agent’
French national and designated foreign agent Laurent Vinatier, October 14, 2024. ©  Telegram / moscowcourts

Addressing the Zamoskvoretsky Court on Monday, Vinatier recited verses from Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, which he said he learned in jail.

“The heart lives in the future; The present is sad: Everything is momentary, everything will pass; What passes will be sweet,” he said, quoting from Pushkin’s poem ‘If Life Deceives You’.

Prosecutors alleged that the 47-year-old Frenchman “purposefully collected information in the field of military and military-technical activities” in Russia, without registering as a foreign agent as the law required.

According to the FSB, Vinatier contacted numerous political scientists, sociologists, economists, military experts and civil servants during his many visits to Moscow and collected information that could have been passed on to foreign intelligence agencies, to the detriment of Russia. However, the Frenchman was never charged with espionage.

Vinatier eventually pleaded guilty to both collection of information and failure to submit the required foreign agent documentation “for several years.”

Prosecutors requested a sentence of three years and three months, but the court settled on three years. The sentence has not yet gone into effect.

Russia’s foreign agent law, first adopted in 2012 and expanded in 2022, requires anyone who receives support from abroad or is under the influence of entities from outside the country to register and be labeled as such. While such persons or entities are not banned from operating in Russia, they face a range of restrictions. Those found in violation of the law can face fines of up to 5 million rubles ($55,000) and up to six years in prison.

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2 Comments on Russia sentences French ‘foreign agent’

  1. Yeah, we’re aware of that. But clearly this substacker isn’t aware of far deeper, long-term agendas, which we’ll be publishing on.

  2. Speaking of Russia, a substacker has connected WEF with BRICS as a single project. Look for “The Great Multipolar Reset: Globalist Vampires in Bed With The BRICS” by “The World Is Not Enough”. October 11, 2024

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