Russia stripped Mark Feygin of his attorney status already in 2018 — after which he fled the country — and labeled him a “foreign agent” in 2022. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he became one of the most-watched Russian anti-war bloggers with 2 million YouTube subscribers.

Feygin gained fame in the 2010s for representing the anti-Kremlin punk collective Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in Russia.