Council of the Federation (SF) on Wednesday will send “a patriotic stop list” containing at present 12 foreign non-profit organizations (NPOs), the Russian Foreign Ministry and the General Prosecutor’s Office to include in the list of undesirable organizations in Russia. This was announced by the speaker of the upper house of Valentina Matvienko. She added that NGOs can challenge the decision in court.
Mrs. Matvienko noted that the proposed list of NGOs formed the Federation Council, does not mean that they fall in the “stop-list”. She added that foreign NGOs, included by the decision of the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the “stop-list” organizations will be able to appeal the decision in court.
According to the source, “RIA Novosti” in the Federation Council, the project “stop list” included “Open Society Institute” (Soros Foundation), National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the MacArthur Foundation, Freedom House, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Foundation “Education for democracy, “the East European Democratic Centre, the World Congress of Ukrainians and Ukrainian World Coordinating Council, the Crimean field mission on Human Rights.
« Of the 12 companies seven somehow relate to the United States, two – Poland and the three – to Ukraine, although there we are talking about international organizations, which often do not operate from the territory of Ukraine, but it is a concrete way today stand on the side of the current Ukrainian authorities, in a Ukrainian crisis, “- said journalists Konstantin Kosachev.
June 3, came into force a law allowing foreign organizations to recognize the “undesirable” – this status automatically prohibits all activities of NGOs in Russia, and for violating the ban relies prosecution for the management of the organization (see. “Kommersant” on 13 and 15 May).
The initiative to create a “stop list” by the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev at a meeting of the Federation Council on June 24. The seminar-workshop on the establishment of “patriotic stop list”, he said that this is not about creating a “legally binding instrument” and the “public-public initiative” designed to generate a list of organizations that “their actions may be or have already They pose a threat to Russia and its national interests. ” According to the senator, the list should be “precautionary” and fall into his organization must understand that “we see what they are doing».
Mr Kosachev did not rule out in the “stop-list” may be included “Open Society Institute” (Soros Foundation), National Endowment for Democracy, MacArthur Foundation, and the National Democratic Institute. The Foreign Ministry said that “attention” is also worthy of a number of American organizations, including the International Republican Institute and the Ukrainian World Congress, headquartered in Canada. Member of the Public Chamber of Veronica Krasheninnikov suggested fund “Eurasia”, the organization Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy and the US Agency for International Development, which “ceased its activities in Russia in the autumn of 2012,” but “still means to go other ways.” As said Konstantin Kosachev, the work on the list should be “transparent and involve all the possible participants themselves».
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