Why though? Russian government doesn’t really give a fuck who’s actually funded by whom. They just use any foreign money transfers as a pretext to bully whomever they want. e.g. If you have a youtube channel and receive adsense or patreon money then you are always at risk of being designated a “foreign agent” at whim, and then you won’t be able to buy shit as nobody would want to take money from you due to risk of also being designated as such.
Well, what I meant is that, with such shallow requirements, they already have pretext to bully practically anyone. They can just look at banking history and declare anyone who has any foreign transfers, or transfers from anyone who has any, a foreign agent. That’s already almost anyone in Russia covered. Those who don’t live in Russia are already foreign agents by default. The only category of people it doesn’t really cover is people living in Russia but using cash only.
Why though? Russian government doesn’t really give a fuck who’s actually funded by whom. They just use any foreign money transfers as a pretext to bully whomever they want. e.g. If you have a youtube channel and receive adsense or patreon money then you are always at risk of being designated a “foreign agent” at whim, and then you won’t be able to buy shit as nobody would want to take money from you due to risk of also being designated as such.
You said it yourself… They’re looking for the pretext
Well, what I meant is that, with such shallow requirements, they already have pretext to bully practically anyone. They can just look at banking history and declare anyone who has any foreign transfers, or transfers from anyone who has any, a foreign agent. That’s already almost anyone in Russia covered. Those who don’t live in Russia are already foreign agents by default. The only category of people it doesn’t really cover is people living in Russia but using cash only.
Would be nice for them to have a list of people that will accidentally trip and fall out of a window