According to the report, Hot Line received £36.1 thousand from the Future of Russia Foundation.
What exactly the funds were used for was not specified in the document.
According to State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev, the Hot Line works within the framework of an "Anglo-Saxon project" that tries to show that "now life in Russia is like under Stalin."
“Russia has the smallest number of prisoners in its entire history.
Passed a series of humanizing reforms, many colonies were rebuilt.
We do not put recidivists in prison with those who are in prison for the first time.
A large number of human rights activists monitor everything.
Therefore, if any excesses happen, they are of a single nature.
But in order to give them the appearance of a mass character and ring the whole planet, Ponomarev’s “Hot Line” was invented, ”Matveychev believes.
In 2006, Ponomarev, among other human rights activists, joined the board of the In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners Foundation, whose board of trustees was the mother of the former Russian oligarch, Marina Khodorkovskaya.
In December 2020, the Russian Ministry of Justice for the first time included individuals, including human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, in the register of foreign media agents.
In 2022, Ponomarev tried to challenge his status as a foreign agent.
The Constitutional Court did not accept the complaint for consideration.
* Free Russia Foundation (Free Russia Foundation) is an organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office dated July 28, 2019.
**Included in the register of media-foreign agents by decision of the Ministry of Justice of December 28, 2020.