Two American NPOs took their employees out of Russia or “the ice has broken”
Last year’s loudly discussed laws on strengthening control over the activities of non-profit organizations (NPOs) that perform the functions of a foreign agent and are actively involved in foreign money in the political life of Russia, yielded first results.As the unforgettable Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky sang in the once popular song about foreign evil spirits that visited the “terrible Murom forests”, the answer from our side was: “... get out, get out, and take the vampire with you!”.
And now the process has begun, “the ice has broken” ...
As reported by news agencies (Lenta.ru, Kommersant, etc.):
Two US non-profit organizations National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republic Institute (IRI) not only closed offices in the Russian Federation, but also took Russians working for them abroad with their families, Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday, 30 in January.
According to the newspaper, seven Russians, full-time NDI and IRI employees, including the heads of the branches of Tamerlan Kurbanov and Natalia Budaeva, were taken from Russia to Lithuania along with family members.
As a former employee of one of these organizations told the newspaper, after the adoption of laws complicating the work of NGOs, the FSB officers visited the heads of the NDI and IRI departments frequently. After that, according to him, at the end of 2012, the American leadership of the NPO decided to cease operations in Russia and invited employees who were threatened with treason to leave the country by organizing the move.
At the moment, the source said, the Russian employees of NDI and IRI are in Vilnius and are awaiting the decision of the Lithuanian authorities to grant them visas with the right to work. If the Lithuanian authorities, for whatever reason, refuse to give them labor visas, he said, the left NGO workers are ready to consider the option of requesting the status of political refugees in other EU countries.
NDI and IRI headquarters in the United States, which were engaged in programs for the development of a democratic society in Russia, declined to comment on reports about the export of Russian employees abroad. The US embassy in Russia, in turn, told Kommersant that they were aware of the problems that the IRI and NDI had encountered in Russia, without going into details.
In Russia, in the summer of 2012, a new law on non-profit organizations came into force, according to which for politically active organizations that receive funding from abroad, more stringent reporting and inspection regimes are being introduced.
According to the newspaper, seven Russians, full-time NDI and IRI employees, including the heads of the branches of Tamerlan Kurbanov and Natalia Budaeva, were taken from Russia to Lithuania along with family members.
As a former employee of one of these organizations told the newspaper, after the adoption of laws complicating the work of NGOs, the FSB officers visited the heads of the NDI and IRI departments frequently. After that, according to him, at the end of 2012, the American leadership of the NPO decided to cease operations in Russia and invited employees who were threatened with treason to leave the country by organizing the move.
At the moment, the source said, the Russian employees of NDI and IRI are in Vilnius and are awaiting the decision of the Lithuanian authorities to grant them visas with the right to work. If the Lithuanian authorities, for whatever reason, refuse to give them labor visas, he said, the left NGO workers are ready to consider the option of requesting the status of political refugees in other EU countries.
NDI and IRI headquarters in the United States, which were engaged in programs for the development of a democratic society in Russia, declined to comment on reports about the export of Russian employees abroad. The US embassy in Russia, in turn, told Kommersant that they were aware of the problems that the IRI and NDI had encountered in Russia, without going into details.
In Russia, in the summer of 2012, a new law on non-profit organizations came into force, according to which for politically active organizations that receive funding from abroad, more stringent reporting and inspection regimes are being introduced.
http://lenta.ru/news/2013/01/30/away/
From myself, I would like to add that it’s not without reason that economical and practical Americans are making financial and other efforts to export, and possibly exfiltration (as the scouts say about rescue measures of the “burned out agents”) who have eaten away on grants from “human rights activists” - they know “who has the whole face in sour cream "and from whom it will pour if it is pressed against the" warm wall ".
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