

I have to report to the Justice Ministry, and I have to account for where the money came from that I used to buy the bread and where the money came from that I used to buy the meat…. "Say I went into a store and bought some bread and meat. "It is essentially an accounting of my expenditures," he explained to Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.

He recently filed his first obligatory financial accounting, a 45-page report that he says cost him considerable time and aggravation.

Pyotr Manyakhin, a Novosibirsk-based journalist with the investigative-journalism outlet Proyekt, was designated a "foreign agent" by the Russian government in July.
