On Wednesday, 156 out of 170 members of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, voted to create a “patriotic stop-list” that will include 12 nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, which legislators believe pose a potential threat to Russia. The Federation Council is now officially asking the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to investigate if these NGOs should be officially designated as “undesirable,” which would make them illegal in Russia.
Six of the organizations on the list, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Freedom House and the MacArthur Foundation, are …read more
Source: Newsweek
