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"Good morning, foreign agent"
On November 21, the Law on Foreign Agents entered into force, obliging non -profit organizations receiving foreign grants, to register in this capacity. The power of the law has already experienced human rights activists. On Wednesday night, unknown people painted the “Foreign Agent” and “I Love USA” with the walls of the Walls of the Memorial human rights center in Maly Karetny Lane. Employees of the Center for the attack of vandals consider it not accidental. The Memorials have already written a statement to the police, in which they are asked to institute criminal proceedings under the article "Vandalism". In a conversation with Publicpost, a member of the Memorial Council Oleg Orlov said that offices and other NPOs were attacked.
Photo: Human Rights Center Memorial
Oleg Orlov, member of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial":
"The inscriptions were discovered by our employees when they went to work by ten in the morning. They painted them either at night or early in the morning. We have security, there is always a permanent duty officer in the building, but he does not sit and does not look out into the street constantly ...
Photo: Human Rights Center Memorial
Photo: Human Rights Center Memorial
With regard to the "memorial", such provocations do not occur often. It happens, of course, but in recent years I can’t mention this. Purely my assessment opinion and the assumption that this was done by some idiots from the pro-Kremlin youth movements, which somehow need to show their activity. So they show her.
Photo: Human Rights Center Memorial
After all, they painted not only with us. At least the situation for human rights has the same situation. So this is not one does alone, this is most likely some kind of campaign-cells in front of their commissars, or what they call it, report on the work done to identify agents. It’s like the Timurovites, who the Red Stars painted on the gates of those who were helped, only on the contrary - expose. Well, no matter how the child is amused ...
But the situation is not only that is not only. In addition to the fact that we were caused by purely material damage, because all this must be removed, painted over, we must understand that moral damage was caused. I have to spit on this inscription, you never know what the disgust will write, but we have a combination of victims of political repression. Basically, of course, these are not those who were sitting - they are already elderly and walk badly, but these are children of the executed. It's nice, what do you think, to people who have been shot by fathers and mothers allegedly as foreign agents, see these inscriptions? In such people, the reaction will be completely different. They will be bitter and insulting. "
Photo: Human Rights Center Memorial
While preparing the material, it became known that the Prochrevsky "Youth" held an action at the Russian office Transparency International. This was written on Facebook by the head of the department Elena Panfilova. About twenty young people stood opposite the office with a poster of "night patrols. To leave the dusk for everyone." As it turned out later, activists of the “Young” movement were involved in the action.
The door of the office of the movement "For human rights". Photo by Sergey Lutsevich
The Memorial International Historical and Communicative Society, as well as the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Human Rights movement, decided not to comply with the requirements of amendments to the legislation that oblige non-profit organizations that receive foreign grants, register as a "foreign agent". "Memorial" will not participate in the destruction of Russian society, and will not be extended about itself knowingly false information. If the Memorial requires our organization to be included in the list of “foreign agents”, we will resist this, primarily in the courts. We are a human rights organization and we will do everything to protect the right, based on the right, ”the Memorial’s reign , widespread at the end of September.“ This law is anti -legal and immoral in its very essence. Anti -legal - because it gives the executive power by the prerogatives of the court. And immoral-because a priori assumes that organizations receiving funds from abroad act on the direction of their sponsors, that is, the highest state wisdom proclaims cheap thieves aphorism: "Whoever dares you," the document says.