OP members accused a colleague of crackers and political denunciation

Members of the Public Chamber criticized their colleague Georgy Fedorov, who accused NGOs “civil assistance” and its leader Svetlana Gannushkin of the roofing of illegal immigration. 11 members of the OP published a letter in which Fedorov’s statements were called regarding “civil assistance” “unreasonable and slander”.

The member of the OP Georgy Fedorov published in his LJ post “ Svetlana Gannushkina. The Secret Roof of the Black Mafia ”, which accused the “civil assistance” and its leader Svetlana Gannushkin of “legal roofing of criminals from the countries of Africa and Asia who went into the territory of Russia” and in “helping for a forgery of documents”. Several documents were attached to the post of native of Nigeria Nahaz Martin Devil, who allegedly helped “obviously false information” to “civilian assistance” to the migration services of the Russian Federation. Fedorov also sent a statement to the prosecutor’s office with a request to conduct an audit in “civil assistance”.

One of the signatures of the letter Nikolai Svanidze told Publicpost: “In my opinion, George Fedorov behaved absolutely unethical. Although this is the internal business of the chamber and the work of Mr. Fedorov himself, but nevertheless, I believe that it puts the public ward in a difficult situation in ethical terms, because the member of the chamber is engaged in political denunciations. Naturally, this does not correspond to the notions of the ideas about Beautiful, not only mine, but also a number of my colleagues who have not hidden it. " “There is a very respected person and human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina at the head of a very respected organization. And now, when such massive massive inspections of NGOs are going on, right now Mr. Fedorov decided to knock on this organization and this lady. I believe that this is absolutely unworthy,” Svanidze added.

Svetlana Gannushkina. Photo: RIA Novosti

Svetlana Gannushkina herself, regarding this story, stated that the audit that the prosecutor’s office was going to conduct was “illegal”. “We initially considered and consider the conducted verification of the illegal. However, due to the openness and transparency of the work of our organization, as well as in order to establish cooperation and understanding with state bodies, they were ready to transfer the documents to the prosecutor’s office. If the prosecutor’s office intended to expand their requirements to an unacceptable level for us, we are also forced to change their attitude to the occurrence,” said Gannushkina. As a result, on April 22, the prosecutor’s investigators and the FMS employees came to the Civil Assistance office .

Georgy Fedorov himself, in a conversation with Publicpost, confirmed that he had seen his colleagues’s letter, it became a “surprise” for him, but he doesn’t hold resentment of them: “We have a free organization, colleagues can express any point of view. This is their right. It is a pity that they have not read the documents because they prove that the Gannushkina Foundation is engaged in the legalization of illegal immigrants in the country. Warriors, this is the second question. Fedorov believes that his activities can help find criminals who illegally penetrate Russia.

"If, as a result of my activity, at least one terrorist or criminal or the work of the illegal migrant will be expelled, then this is a great victory," Fedorov said. He also added that maybe other members of OP will support him. “Perhaps there will be a letter with the support of my position of members of the OP and social activists,” Fedorov said, however, who could stand up for him, did not specify, because, according to him, he had not yet managed to contact anyone yet. Judging by the LJ Georgy Fedorov, he is extremely wary of NGOs and representatives of the opposition: it is enough to read his posts about Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Ponomarev, the Voice association, etc.

On November 21, 2012, the law officially entered into force in Russia, which obliges NPOs, which receive funding from abroad and conduct political activities in Russia, to register as "foreign agents". At the end of March this year, massive inspections of NGOs by the prosecutor, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Tax Service began throughout Russia. Administrative affairs were made in relation to the Voice Association , the Kostroma Center for the Support of Public Initiatives and the Kostroma Branch of the Committee of Soldiers' Mother - because they did not register as "foreign agents."