Authorities in Russia's Voronezh region have approved a procedure for paying compensation to companies and sole proprietors that lose property as a result of terrorist attacks or operations to suppress them. Legal entities and entrepreneurs listed in Russia's “foreign agents” register are ineligible.
The resolution was signed on October 21 and published on October 22. The Insider identified the restriction in its text. Under the procedure, applicants meeting the specified requirements are eligible for a one-off payment of 300,000 rubles, regardless of the value of the lost property.
The amount comes from a federal compensation mechanism in force since 2019. The Voronezh regional government established the local procedure for disbursing money allocated from the federal budget through the Russian government's reserve fund. It would therefore be inaccurate to describe the payment as an entirely new regional benefit.
Clause 3 of the procedure specifies that applicants must not appear in the “foreign agents” register. Similar restrictions apply to entities and people associated with extremism or terrorism under Russian law. As a result, the designated status alone can prevent payment even where loss of property has been documented.
The Insider notes that comparable compensation procedures exist in other regions, but its journalists did not find an explicit ban on “foreign agents” in the regulations they examined in the Kursk and Moscow regions.
The resolution applies to this particular compensation mechanism for entrepreneurs and organizations. It does not establish that every person designated a “foreign agent” automatically loses all benefits, nor does it mean that every drone strike in the region will qualify as a terrorist attack under this procedure.