.Authorizations in Russia on Friday designated a Grammy-winning pianist, a priest who aids Ukrainian expatriates and also a former Soviet spy as "international representatives," the most up to date upgrade to Moscow's growing checklist of individuals it considers as enemies of the state.Dozens cultural bodies, journalists, businessmen, and also information outlets and also companies, have actually been actually branded "overseas representatives"-- which brings adverse Soviet-era undertones-- considering that Russia offered the legislation in 2012.The Russian Compensation Administrative agency's most up-to-date enhancement to the "foreign representatives" listing features world-renowned concert pianist Yevgeny Kissin, Apostolic Orthodox Congregation priest Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko as well as ex-KGB police officer Yuri Shvets. Dmitry Tsibirev, who served as an organizer for the overdue Kremlin movie critic Alexei Navalny in the Saratov region, was actually additionally called a "international agent" on Friday." Kissin opposed the unique armed forces operation in Ukraine, joined fundraising activities in support of the Ukrainian armed forces, consisting of as aspect of his touring activities, and additionally moved funds to all of them," the department said.Mikhnov-Vaytenko, meanwhile, was actually indicted of spreading out "bogus information" regarding the Russian authorities as well as giving job interviews to "overseas broker" media.Shvets, that delivers comments on Russia's war in Ukraine for his well-liked YouTube channel, was actually accused of prompting countries that are "unfriendly" to Russia to improve "prohibited activities" versus Moscow. Considering that the 1990s, the past spy has lived in the USA, where he keeps citizenship.Russia uses the term "international agent" to folks it views as double-dealers and also enemies of the condition, and also needs all those classified to signify their publications with a prolonged please note. People branded as "international agents" are also needed to provide rigorous economic reports to the Compensation Ministry.Independent media has stated that the amount of criminal scenarios against "overseas representatives" in Russia more than doubled in 2023 compared with the previous year..Russian authorizations have actually moved to better tighten legislation targeting "international agents" in recent months.