Justice Ministry declares Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation ‘undesirable’ organization

Russia’s Justice Ministry has included Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation on its list of “undesirable” organizations, reports Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti.

Russia’s Prosecutor General should be the first to declare an organization “undesirable,” after which the Justice Ministry can include the organization on its list. But the Prosecutor General never issued a report declaring the Anti-Corruption Foundation “undesirable.”

According to the Justice Ministry, the Prosecutor General made the decision on May 22, 2023. The Anti-corruption Foundation was declared a “foreign agent,” a less serious designation for opponents of the Putin regime, in December 2022.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation, an international non-profit dedicated to fighting corruption, was started by Alexey Navalny’s associates in July 2022. Its advisory board includes former Prime Minister of Belgium and Member of the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum, scholar Francis Fukuyama, and economist and Alexey Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya.