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Financing Russian Civil Society

(Europe-Asia Studies) (Co-authored with Sarah Lindemann-Komarova) Abstract: In the past five years, the funding environment for nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and social projects in Russia has changed dramatically. The most publicised developments involve…

Indigenously Funded Russian Civil Society

(PONARS Policy Memo) Most reports on Russian civil society focus on government efforts to restrict Western funding to Russian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with legislation on foreign agents and undesirable organizations. The…

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Is There Willful Misinterpretation of FARA in Russia?

PONARS Eurasia members discuss the Russian Duma's “foreign agent” NGO law and references to the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA; 1938). The FARA database can be searched here: http://www.fara.gov/quick-search.html…

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Why the Kremlin Is Targeting NGOs

(Moscow Times) The authorities have initiated an unprecedented campaign against nongovernmental organizations, conducting burdensome inspections of their offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don and dozens of…

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