Russia revoked journalist’s citizenship
Moscow (dpa) — Russia has revoked journalist Roman Anin’s citizenship for allegedly discrediting the armed forces.
The interior ministry said that immigration officials had decided to take this step because of crimes committed by Anin, the state news agency TASS reported on Tuesday.
Anin is editor-in-chief of the internet news portal Vazhnye Istorii (Important Stories).
The portal caused a stir with its investigations into the alleged daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin and its collaboration on the international project to expose tax havens, known as the Pandora Papers.
The Russian authorities had already classified Vazhnye Istorii as a foreign agent in 2021. Shortly after the start of the war against Ukraine in 2022, they blacklisted the portal as an undesirable organization, effectively banning it.
“Vazhnye Istorii” now operates from Latvia.
Anin was born in 1986 in Moldova and only obtained Russian citizenship in 2006.
In March 2025, a Moscow court sentenced him and another journalist from the media outlet in absentia to 8.5 years’ imprisonment each for “knowingly spreading false information about the Russian armed forces.”
In Russia, any reports about the actions of its own army in the war against Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin that do not fit Moscow’s narrative are considered such an offence.
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