On August 20, 2021, the Ministry of Justice of Russia decided to include LLC Rain LLC in the register of foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent. This decision was made on the basis of documents received from state authorities.
In particular, according to the information received from Roskomnadzor, the Rain LLC Rain on a quarterly submits notifications of the receipt of funds from foreign sources. Thus, within the framework of the concluded agreement, the Rain LLC received from the European Union represented by the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium) for covering relations between the EU and Russia more than 130 thousand euros.
Rosfinmonitoring also established the receipt of LLC TV channel rain of indirect foreign financing through Russian funds.
In addition, this organization systematically distributes the materials of foreign media that perform the functions of a foreign agent, while receiving foreign financing. So Roskomnadzor for the period from July 2020 to July 2021 revealed facts of distribution and citation in the network edition “TVRan.ru“And the Rain television channel (founder of LLC Rain LLC) of the materials of foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent: Voice of America, Idel. Realii, Caucasus. Realii, Current Time, Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty (PCE/PC), Siberia. Realities, North Realia, SIA Medusa Project, “Vtimes.io” and so on.
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