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News 08/06-2017Rights heavy weights join European Court case against Russia’s NGO law
Two influential rights advocacy groups have been called on to by the European Court of Human Rights to submit briefs supporting a suit by 61 Russian non-profits over the Kremlin’s withering foreign agent law for NGOs that operate on even small sums of international funding.
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News 10/01-2017New amendments to Russia’s NGO law may shield environmental groups
President Vladimir Putin, according to Russian media reports, is again considering amendments to his signature “foreign agents” law of 2012, which has for the last four years hobbled the work of NGOs that receive financing from abroad.
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News 07/12-2016Former Rosatom head works to make NGO law at least appear more legal
Sergei Kiriyenko, three months off his post as head of Russia’s nuclear industry, is emerging as a broker between nonprofit groups, environmental rights advocates and President Vladimir Putin.
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News 30/05-2016Major rights watchdog says Putin should not sign new NGO law amendments
International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has condemned the Russian Duma’s recent adoption of amendments to the country’s draconian NGO law, and has called on President Vladimir Putin not to sign them into force.
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News 26/05-2016
Russian parliament’s upper chamber approves NGO law amendments in a giant step to making them law
Russia’s Federation Council, the upper chamber of Parliament, has approved new amendments defining “political activity” in Russia’s 2012 law on NGOs, moving the broad mandate under which Russia’s non-profit sector can be named “foreign agents: on a fast track for Vladimir Putin’s signature.
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News 13/05-2016
Criticizing Russia’s NGO law is punishable ‘political activity’ leading to ‘foreign agent’ label, says Justice Ministry
In its mounting campaign against NGOs, Russian’s Ministry of Justice has suggested that criticizing the country’s notorious “foreign agent” law for non-profits is itself an act of “political activity” that should lead to punishment.
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News 03/03-2016Russian legislators and human rights officials come out swinging over NGO law amendments
Russian human rights officials are slugging it out on the floor of parliament with the country’s Justice Ministry over Moscow’s foreign agent law for NGOs and its definition of “political activity”– a vague charge that has closed down a third of Russian non-profits since the law was adopted.
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News 02/02-2016Putin’s Human Rights Council says Justice Ministry botched NGO law amendments
Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights and Civil Society, said proposed amendments to the country’s NGO – or foreign agent – law are an “inappropriate” response to a review of the legislation ordered by Vladimir Putin in October.
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News 19/05-2015
‘Undesirables’ wanted under new Russian anti-NGO law
A Russian bill that would ban “undesirable organizations” has inched closer to approval as it passed its second, and most important, reading in the Duma Friday in a measure many see as an extreme effort to broaden the “foreign agent” law that, in effect, targets individuals working in the civil society sector.
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News 05/07-2013Putin’s promises to tone down ‘foreign agent’ NGO law gets mixed reception from rights leaders
In a modest easing of his stance on the rigid and controversial law branding NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity as “foreign agents,” Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting with rights activists said the legislation should draw distinctions between certain types of NGOs.
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News 09/04-2013
Election monitoring group becomes first target of new Russian NGO law
Russian authorities have filed a case against the elections watchdog Golos for failing to register as a “foreign agent” under the country’s new law requiring that NGOs receiving funding from abroad that engage in vaguely defined “political activity" do so, various news organizations have reported.
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News 23/01-2013Enforcement of Russia’s NGO law wavering as Justice Ministry rejects those who wish to register as foreign agents
Russia’s Ministry of Justice is showing a pronounced reluctance in applying the country’s new NGO law that requires non-governmental entities operating there that receive foreign funding and engage in “political activity” to register with the Ministry as "foreign agents."
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News 05/09-2012Russian regional administration forbids employees contact with ‘foreign agents’ as new NGO law gains traction
The Administration of the Mari El Region 850 kilometers east of Moscow has issued a directive to its officials to refrain from participating in social or political activities organized by foreign nongovernmental organizations or Russian NGOs receiving funding form foreign sources.
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News 18/06-2009Medvedev suggests amendments to Russia’s NGO law – human rights activists suggest more
In a surprising turnabout from the administration of Russian President Dmirty Medvedev, the Kremlin chief said he would easing some restrictions and registration complications for Russian non governmental organisations that human rights groups have criticised as being repressive.
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News 08/04-2008
Frustrations over Russia’s NGO law to be voiced by the EU
BRUSSELS-International non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved with human rights issues in Russia urged the EU Tuesday to raise questions with Russia over the way independent NGOs are being treated in the country just weeks before Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev takes office on May 7th.
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News 05/10-2007EU raises question on Russian NGO law with Moscow authorities
BRUSSELS – In what has become a running leitmotif for European Union (EU) human rights officials, representatives of member states have again spoken out with concern about the encroaching effects on Russian civil society that the country’s year-old law on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is having.
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News 22/09-2007Bellona St. Petersburg under the gun of Russia’s new NGO laws
NEW YORK – After a two month long investigation, Russia’s official organ for registering and monitoring non-governmental organisation has said Bellona’s St. Petersburg offices have run afoul of federal laws by not paying advertising tax on programme donations received from international consulates – taxes they are not required to pay.
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News 19/10-2006Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others temporarily halted by new Russian NGO law
At least four prominent international human rights organisations have been forced to temporarily stop work in Russia for allegedly failing to comply with Moscow’s tough new guidelines governing the re-registration of foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs), representatives of the suspended NGOs said.
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News 08/10-2006Russian democracy smothered by NGO law, corruption and a muzzled media
Democracy in Russia - groaning under the weight of new restrictive laws governing non-profit organisations, rampant corruption, the Kremlin’s co-opting of the media, and the vertical power structure subjugating all levels of Russian governance to President Vladimir Putin – is dying.
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News 23/03-2006European Commission Reacts To New Russian NGO Law
BRUSSELS—The European Commission (EC) has officially voiced its concerns over the stringent new NGO law passed by the Russian government in January to Ella Pamfilova, chair of Russian President Putin’s Presidential Council of the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.