Pavlov, the founder of Zenden, was removed from the list of foreign agents

Andrey Pavlov, the founder of the Zenden shoe store chain, has been removed from the register of foreign agents. This was reported on February 13 on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

"In accordance with the orders of the Ministry of Justice of Russia <...> Andrei Vasilyevich Pavlov was excluded from the register," the message says.

According to the agency, this decision was made in connection with the loss of Pavlov's signs of a foreign agent.

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On February 6, the Kursk Industrial Court rejected the claim of Roman Alekhine, an ex-adviser to the governor of the Kursk region and a blogger (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), who asked to be excluded from the list of foreign agents. Alekhine stated that he did not agree with the order issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The blogger was recognized as a foreign agent on September 19, 2025. In addition, it is known that in 2014, Alekhine was tried for selling substandard prostheses. In the noughties, the blogger founded his own orthopedic company for the production of prostheses. So, the state bought medical equipment from him and provided them to Russians with disabilities.

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