Authorities Begin Implementing New NGO Law

Author(s): Dmitry Vinogradov
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 3
Pages: 12-14
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

Russia is now tabulating the first results of the new law on NGOs. Its first victims were the dead souls, organizations that had been formally registered but conducted no activities in practice. However, observers predict that the more complicated procedures contained in the new law will give the authorities the ability to persecute serious organizations that they do not like.

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