The Prosecutor General’s Office requested that journalist and film critic Anton Dolin be sentenced in absentia to one year and ten months in prison for not performing the duties of a “foreign agent,” MediaZona correspondent from the 353rd District Court in Moscow reported.
Dolina is accused of five posts he made without the label “foreign agency” on his Telegram channel in 2024 and 2025:
- On November 22, 2024 it is booksAnd his book “The Bad Russians” won the “Enlightenment” Prize;
- December 10, 2024 I mentionedHe is going to Israel to present the same book.
- February 11, 2025 published A post with a link to your summary of Russian cinema on YouTube;
- February 24, 2025 books On the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine and talked about his publications;
- March 1, 2025 published Another with thoughts about the meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump.
The case against Dolin became known in September 2025. In November, the court arrested the film critic in absentia.
The Russian Ministry of Justice declared Anton Dolin a “foreign agent” in October 2022. The film critic does not consider himself a “foreign agent” and appealed this illegal decision in court, the journalist’s lawyer Eva Korniczek said during the hearing in the case of failure to perform the duties of a “foreign agent.”