Russian Lawmakers Attack American Charities
Russian legislators have accused the United States of using nongovernmental organizations to interfere in the country’s domestic affairs. The State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has unanimously passed a resolution condemning what it said were “unprecedented attempts” by the United States to…
By Bryon MacWilliams
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Russia Charity Law Snarls a Dutch Human-Rights Organization
The Russian government has refused to allow a Dutch nonprofit organization to resume providing legal assistance here to victims of human-rights abuses. The decision not to re-register the Stichting Russian Justice Initiative has been described as spurious by the head of the Utrecht organization,…
By Bryon MacWilliams
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American Charities Snagged by New Russian Law
Several dozen foreign nonprofit groups remain barred from working in Russia while authorities consider whether to allow them to operate, in keeping with a new law that even a Kremlin adviser criticized last week for its red tape. At least 57 nonprofit groups from countries in the Asia Pacific,…
By Bryon MacWilliams
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Charities That Work in Russia Worry About Impact of New Law
Nonprofit organizations had hoped the world’s richest and most democratic nations would use last month’s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg as a forum to speak out against a law that imposes new restrictions on charities and foundations that work in Russia. But that did not happen. Western…
By Bryon MacWilliams
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