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| December 1 2022 | Implementation of a unified register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, consolidating previous separate registers. |
| 2021 | Addition of unregistered public associations to the foreign agent categories, expanding the scope of the foreign agent legislation. |
| July 15 2021 | Second wave of individual media foreign agents registered, including Roman Badanin, Maksim Glikin, and Yulia Yarosh |
| February 2021 | By February 2021, approximately 200 NGOs had been recognized as 'foreign agents' since the program's inception in 2013 |
| 2020 | Introduction of foreign agent status for individual persons, creating the third category of foreign agents under Russian law. |
| December 28 2020 | First batch of individual media foreign agents registered, including Lev Ponomaryov, Lyudmila Savitskaya, Sergey Markelov, and Denis Kamalyagin |
| 2017 | Expansion of foreign agent designation to include media organizations as the second category of foreign agents. |
| March 2017 | In March 2017, following legal proceedings, the Ministry of Justice corrected its order, and information about organizations that ceased to be 'foreign agents' was completely excluded from the register, though columns for date and reason of exclusion remained. |
| January 2016 | In January 2016, the Kostroma Center for the Support of Public Initiatives appealed to the Supreme Court against the Ministry of Justice's order on maintaining the register of non-profit organizations labeled as 'foreign agents'. |
| October 2015 | In October 2015, information about organizations previously excluded from the 'foreign agents' register briefly disappeared from the register, but quickly returned. |
| November 20 2014 | Private institution 'Information Agency MEMO.RU' and Non-profit partnership 'Institute of Regional Press' added to the foreign agents register |
| August 28 2014 | Foundation for Assistance to the Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms 'Public Verdict' and Foundation 'Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information' added to the foreign agents register |
| July 21 2014 | Multiple organizations including Interregional public organization Human Rights Center 'Memorial' and Kaliningrad regional public organization 'Ecoprotection! - Women's Council' added to the foreign agents register |
| 2013 | Russian government began designating NGOs as 'foreign agents', initiating a systematic process of labeling organizations with foreign funding as foreign agents |
| June 27 2013 | Eurasian Antimonopoly Association included in the foreign agents register |
| 2012 | Introduction of legal status for non-profit organizations as foreign agents in Russia, establishing the first category of foreign agents. |
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