Overview
- The Interior Ministry served a ministerial expulsion order on July 29 that said Fedorova’s behaviour harms the state’s fundamental interests and constitutes a particularly grave threat to public order.
- The Economy Ministry published an order on July 31 freezing her assets for six months to prevent alleged further acts of foreign interference.
- Since the expulsion order was notified she has been reported assigned to residence in Paris with daily police check-ins and her lawyer said she will immediately appeal the measures.
- Canal+ and Lagardère have denounced the steps as a serious breach of freedom of expression while government ministers and the president’s office defend the actions as legally justified to block Kremlin disinformation.
- The case underscores practical limits to immediate deportation because of broken diplomatic channels with Russia and has prompted regulatory reviews, calls for EU sanctions and wider political debate ahead of the 2027 election.