.Authorities in Russia on Friday labelled a Grammy-winning pianist, a clergyman that helps Ukrainian expatriates and a former Soviet spy as "foreign agents," the most recent upgrade to Moscow's increasing checklist of people it deems as enemies of the state.Manies social bodies, writers, businesspeople, as well as information outlets as well as companies, have been actually branded "overseas brokers"-- which carries damaging Soviet-era connotations-- given that Russia offered the regulations in 2012.The Russian Fair treatment Ministry's most recent enhancement to the "overseas representatives" listing features world-renowned performance pianist Yevgeny Kissin, Apostolic Orthodox Church priest Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko and also ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets. Dmitry Tsibirev, that functioned as a coordinator for the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the Saratov region, was additionally called a "overseas representative" on Friday." Kissin resisted the exclusive military operation in Ukraine, took part in fundraising celebrations in support of the Ukrainian armies, including as part of his touring activities, and likewise moved funds to them," the administrative agency stated.Mikhnov-Vaytenko, meanwhile, was accused of dispersing "fake information" about the Russian authorities as well as giving job interviews to "foreign representative" media.Shvets, who supplies comments on Russia's battle in Ukraine for his prominent YouTube stations, was accused of prompting countries that are actually "hostile" to Russia to boost "against the law activities" versus Moscow. Because the 1990s, the previous spy has resided in the USA, where he keeps citizenship.Russia applies the phrase "international representative" to people it considers double-dealers and adversaries of the state, and needs all those tagged to denote their publications with a long please note. Individuals branded as "foreign agents" are actually also demanded to send extensive economic reports to the Compensation Administrative agency.Independent media has mentioned that the variety of unlawful scenarios against "foreign representatives" in Russia more than doubled in 2023 compared with the previous year..Russian authorities have moved to even further secure regulation targeting "overseas representatives" in latest months.