Russia/Undesirable organization

Russia/Undesirable organization
Russia/Undesirable organization
Membership	• National Endowment for Democracy; • Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation; • Open Society Foundations; • U.S. Russia Foundation; • National Democratic Institute; • Media Development Investment Fund; • International Republican Institute; • Open Russia Civic Movement; • Open Russia; • Institute of Modern Russia; • Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation; • European Platform for Democratic Elections; • International Elections Study Center; • German Marshall Fund; • Pacific Environment; • Free Russia Foundation; • Ukrainian World Congress; • Atlantic Council; • People in Need; • European Endowment for Democracy; • Jamestown Foundation; • Project Harmony International; • Dragon Springs Buddhist (The Mountain); • Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting; • European Falun Dafa Association; • Friends of Falun Gong; • Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners; • Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong; • World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong; • Prague Civil Society Centre; • Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe; • Center for Liberal Modernity ; • Forum of Russian-speaking Europeans; • Austausch ; • Bard College; • European Choice; • Khodorkovsky Foundation; • Oxford Russia Fund; • Future of Russia Foundation; • Freedom of Information Society (Team 29); • Proekt; • International Partnership for Human Rights; • New Generation Spiritual Directorate of the Evangelical Christian ; • New Generation Evangelical Christian Church ; • New Generation International Biblical College ; • New Generation International Christian Movement ; • World Institute of Scientology Enterprises; • Church of Spiritual Technology; • European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations; • WOT Foundation; • Free Idel-Ural; • Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project; • iStories (Important Stories); • Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs); • Crimean Human Rights Group; • Heinrich Böll Foundation; • Stichting Bellingcat; • Bellingcat; • The Insider; • CEELI Institute; • Open Estonia Foundation; • Calvert 22 Foundation; • Ukrainian Canadian Congress; • Macdonald–Laurier Institute; • Ukrainian National Federation of Canada; • Decembrists (German: Dekabristen); • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center); • Open Press; • Renaissance Volodymyr Muntyan Charitable Foundation; • Spiritual Center "Renaissance"; • Riddle; • Anti-war Committee in Sweden "Russians Against War"; • Meduza; • Andrei Sakharov Foundation; • Free Russia Forum; • Free Nations League; • Transparency International; • Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum; • Solidarus; • CrimeaSOS; • Free University (Russia) (Latvian: Brīvā Universitāte); • Institute for Statecraft; • EU—Russia Civil Society Forum; • Bellona Foundation; • League of Residents of Chishima and Habomai Islands; • Congress of People's Deputies; • Greenpeace International; • Anti-Corruption Foundation International; • "Transformation Center Church International; • Transformation Center Covenant Network"; • Agora (Interregional Association of Human Rights Organizations); • World Wide Fund for Nature; • Novaya Gazeta Europe; • Altai Project; • Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv; • Human Rights House Foundation; • Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House; • Human Rights House Tbilisi; • Human Rights House Yerevan; • Human Rights House Crimea; • Wild Salmon Center; • TVR Studios (TV Rain); • TV Rain; • Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (Martens Centre); • Conflict Intelligence Team; • AllatRa; • For a Free Russia (Polish: Za Wolną Rosję); • Free Buryatia Foundation; • URALIC Centre for Indigenous Peoples; • UnKremlin; • International Transport Workers' Federation; • EastCham Finland; • Hudson Institute; • Foundation for Democratic Development; • Committee-2024; • Central European University; • Centre for East European and International Studies; • Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses; • Religious Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Ukraine; • Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; • Civic Council; • Center for European Policy Analysis; • Eastern European Academic Network; • Russian Action Committee; • RAND Corporation; • Russian America for Democracy in Russia; • True Russia; • Global Investigative Journalism Network; • Helpdesk Media Foundation; • Freies Russland Berlin; • Freies Russland NRW; • GlobalGiving Foundation; • Anti-War Committee of Russia; • Russie-Libertés ; • Asociación de Rusos Libres; • Alliance for the Return of the Northern Territories; • Crimean Tatar Resource Center ; • IndustriALL Global Union; • Russian Election Monitor; • Article 19; • Mnenie Media (DOXA); • Anarchist Black Cross Federation; • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; • German Society for Eastern European Studies ; • Friedrich Ebert Foundation; • XZ Foundation; • OWEN — Mobile Academy for Gender Democracy and Peacebuilding; • Lew Kopelew Forum ; • American Councils for International Education; • Cultural Vistas; • Institute of International Education; • Russians Against War Antalya; • Open Dialogue Foundation; • Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; • Russian Canadian Democratic Alliance; • Norman Paterson School of International Affairs; • Center for Civil Liberties; • Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom; • Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom; • Feminist Anti-War Resistance; • Ingush Independence Committee; • Prometheus Security Environment Research Center; • KKL-Stop the Occupation of Karelia; • Come Back Alive; • Freedom House; • SOTA media (Sotaproject); • Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine; • German Historical Institute Moscow; • Great Commission Media Ministries; • International Russian Radio & Television; • Great Commission Media Ministries; • Dekoder; • Center for Strategic and International Studies; • Democratic Community of Russian-Speakers in Finland; • Vuoksi Ry; • MitOst; • The John Smith Trust; • The Moscow Times; • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; • Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus; • EF Education First; • OSTMOST Foundation; • Konrad Adenauer Foundation; • Kulturus; • MRR-Fund (My Russian Rights); • Russland hinter Gittern; • For your and our freedom; • Deputies of Peaceful Russia; • Clooney Foundation for Justice; • Belsat; • Fund 24.02; • Media in Cooperation and Transition; • Internationale Assoziation für Intellektuelle Spiele; • Young Presidents Organization; • Human Rights Centre "ZMINA"
	Law banning "undesirable organizations" - many of them NGOs with ties to Western intelligence agencies - from operating in Russia.

The Russian undesirable organizations law is a law that was signed by President Vladimir Putin on 23 May 2015 as a follow-up to the 2012 Russian [[foreign agent] law. Under the law, Russian prosecutors are able to target foreign groups which they deem to present "a threat to the foundation of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation, the defense capability of the country or the security of the state."^[1]

As of 21 November 2024, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared 194 overseas and international non-governmental organizations undesirable in Russia.^[2]

legal implications for NGOs

These organisations are forbidden from holding public events and from possessing or distributing promotional materials, including via mass media. All Russian banks and financial institutions are forbidden from cooperating with them and are required to inform Russia's financial watchdog agency about all those that attempt to use them.

When given notice from the prosecutors, these NGOs have to disband. Violators face fines or prison terms of up to six years. People cooperating with such entities are subject to fines and can be banned from entering Russia.^[3] Russians who maintain ties with "undesirables" face penalties ranging from fines to a maximum of six years in prison.^[4]

Problems with Western official narrative

The Russian law is similar to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act.^[5] Most NATO countries have similar laws.

Known members

24 of the 194 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Article 19
Bard College	Liberal arts college in New York State from 2021 funded by Open Society Foundations
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for European Policy Analysis
Center for Strategic and International Studies	Powerful and spooky US think-tank
Central European University	Founded and financed by George Soros
Chatham House	A key organ of the UK Deep state
European Platform for Democratic Elections	NGO doing election observations. Its judgement on what is deemed a "fair" election or not, might possibly be influenced by who finances it, which includes several NATO governments and deep state foundations. Also makes an "enemies list"
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
German Marshall Fund	According to whistleblower Udo Ulfkotte, a CIA front group. Despite the 'German' in its name, it is a fully US/CIA-controlled operation, mainly to maintain a network of transatlantic European politicians and journalists. Hugely influential behind the scenes.
Heinrich Böll Foundation	Conduit for German government money to select opposition activists.
Hudson Institute
Institute for Statecraft	The UK MoD/FCO funded group that ran the ironically named Integrity Initiative, exposed in 2018 by 'Anonymous' as an organ of the UK/Deep state
International Republican Institute	Has been tied to many covert plans to install US-favored governments. Will promote "free, fair, transparent democratic elections", but in such a way that it assures that power goes to the elites and not to the people.
Media Development Investment Fund	Fund financing a large number of "independent" news and information businesses around the world. Connected to the Open Society Foundations and other usual suspects.
Moscow Times
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Radio Free Europe
Scientology	Religion/Sect known for its hardball tactics against critics.
Transparency International
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	Influential and discreet Washington think tank
World Wildlife Fund
Zentrum Liberale Moderne

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References

[1] ttps://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-signs-russian-law-to-shut-undesirable-organizations-1432404789

[2] ttps://archive.today/20240202170320/https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/documents/7756

[abc.net.au-3] ttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-24/russia-new-ngo-law-draws-western-ire/6493520

[4] ttps://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/russia

[5] ttps://www.rt.com/russia/606243-echr-russia-foreign-agents/#:~:text=Russia%E2%80%99s%20foreign%20agent%20law%2C%20similar,and%20be%20labeled%20as%20such

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Russia/Undesirable organization
Membership	• National Endowment for Democracy • Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation • Open Society Foundations • U.S. Russia Foundation • National Democratic Institute • Media Development Investment Fund • International Republican Institute • Open Russia Civic Movement • Open Russia • Institute of Modern Russia • Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation • European Platform for Democratic Elections • International Elections Study Center • German Marshall Fund • Pacific Environment • Free Russia Foundation • Ukrainian World Congress • Atlantic Council • People in Need • European Endowment for Democracy • Jamestown Foundation • Project Harmony International • Dragon Springs Buddhist (The Mountain) • Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting • European Falun Dafa Association • Friends of Falun Gong • Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners • Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong • World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong • Prague Civil Society Centre • Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe • Center for Liberal Modernity • Forum of Russian-speaking Europeans • Austausch • Bard College • European Choice • Khodorkovsky Foundation • Oxford Russia Fund • Future of Russia Foundation • Freedom of Information Society (Team 29) • Proekt • International Partnership for Human Rights • New Generation Spiritual Directorate of the Evangelical Christian • New Generation Evangelical Christian Church • New Generation International Biblical College • New Generation International Christian Movement • World Institute of Scientology Enterprises • Church of Spiritual Technology • European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations • WOT Foundation • Free Idel-Ural • Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project • iStories (Important Stories) • Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) • Crimean Human Rights Group • Heinrich Böll Foundation • Stichting Bellingcat • Bellingcat • The Insider • CEELI Institute • Open Estonia Foundation • Calvert 22 Foundation • Ukrainian Canadian Congress • Macdonald–Laurier Institute • Ukrainian National Federation of Canada • Decembrists (German: Dekabristen) • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) • Open Press • Renaissance Volodymyr Muntyan Charitable Foundation • Spiritual Center "Renaissance" • Riddle • Anti-war Committee in Sweden "Russians Against War" • Meduza • Andrei Sakharov Foundation • Free Russia Forum • Free Nations League • Transparency International • Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum • Solidarus • CrimeaSOS • Free University (Russia) (Latvian: Brīvā Universitāte) • Institute for Statecraft • EU—Russia Civil Society Forum • Bellona Foundation • League of Residents of Chishima and Habomai Islands • Congress of People's Deputies • Greenpeace International • Anti-Corruption Foundation International • "Transformation Center Church International • Transformation Center Covenant Network" • Agora (Interregional Association of Human Rights Organizations) • World Wide Fund for Nature • Novaya Gazeta Europe • Altai Project • Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv • Human Rights House Foundation • Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House • Human Rights House Tbilisi • Human Rights House Yerevan • Human Rights House Crimea • Wild Salmon Center • TVR Studios (TV Rain) • TV Rain • Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (Martens Centre) • Conflict Intelligence Team • AllatRa • For a Free Russia (Polish: Za Wolną Rosję) • Free Buryatia Foundation • URALIC Centre for Indigenous Peoples • UnKremlin • International Transport Workers' Federation • EastCham Finland • Hudson Institute • Foundation for Democratic Development • Committee-2024 • Central European University • Centre for East European and International Studies • Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses • Religious Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Ukraine • Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania • Civic Council • Center for European Policy Analysis • Eastern European Academic Network • Russian Action Committee • RAND Corporation • Russian America for Democracy in Russia • True Russia • Global Investigative Journalism Network • Helpdesk Media Foundation • Freies Russland Berlin • Freies Russland NRW • GlobalGiving Foundation • Anti-War Committee of Russia • Russie-Libertés • Asociación de Rusos Libres • Alliance for the Return of the Northern Territories • Crimean Tatar Resource Center • IndustriALL Global Union • Russian Election Monitor • Article 19 • Mnenie Media (DOXA) • Anarchist Black Cross Federation • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty • German Society for Eastern European Studies • Friedrich Ebert Foundation • XZ Foundation • OWEN — Mobile Academy for Gender Democracy and Peacebuilding • Lew Kopelew Forum • American Councils for International Education • Cultural Vistas • Institute of International Education • Russians Against War Antalya • Open Dialogue Foundation • Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy • Russian Canadian Democratic Alliance • Norman Paterson School of International Affairs • Center for Civil Liberties • Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom • Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom • Feminist Anti-War Resistance • Ingush Independence Committee • Prometheus Security Environment Research Center • KKL-Stop the Occupation of Karelia • Come Back Alive • Freedom House • SOTA media (Sotaproject) • Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine • German Historical Institute Moscow • Great Commission Media Ministries • International Russian Radio & Television • Great Commission Media Ministries • Dekoder • Center for Strategic and International Studies • Democratic Community of Russian-Speakers in Finland • Vuoksi Ry • MitOst • The John Smith Trust • The Moscow Times • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus • EF Education First • OSTMOST Foundation • Konrad Adenauer Foundation • Kulturus • MRR-Fund (My Russian Rights) • Russland hinter Gittern • For your and our freedom • Deputies of Peaceful Russia • Clooney Foundation for Justice • Belsat • Fund 24.02 • Media in Cooperation and Transition • Internationale Assoziation für Intellektuelle Spiele • Young Presidents Organization • Human Rights Centre "ZMINA"
Law banning "undesirable organizations" - many of them NGOs with ties to Western intelligence agencies - from operating in Russia.