Foreign Office expresses concern about new Russian NGO law
A Foreign Office spokesperson said that the new law which labels Russian NGOs receiving foreign funding as foreign agents, and subjects them to increased scrutiny, is deeply worrying.
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“Many Russian NGOs receive foreign support for their important activities in the fields of human rights, the rule of law and anti-corruption. They make a crucial contribution to the protection of democratic rights and to the development of a vibrant civil society in Russia. By creating additional burdensome requirements for NGOs, and labelling them with a term seemingly designed to generate mistrust, this move can only be seen as having a negative impact on the free operation of civil society.”