"Agora" asked the KS protection from the prosecutor's office of Tataria

The head of the Agora Association Pavel Chikov appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to protect the organization from the pressure of the Tataria Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by an open news agency. “Given that this pressure and violation of the rights of the Agora association occurred in connection with the appeal to the Constitutional Court of Russia (with a complaint against the law on“ foreign agents. ” - Ed.), We ask you to take response measures within the limits of the authority provided for by law,” the letter of the head of the NPO says.

Last week, the Tataria Prosecutor's Office contributed to Chikov a submission with the requirement of Agora to register with the agent . "It has been established that Agora, receiving foreign financing, is involved in political activities in the Russian Federation," the press release said, which was distributed by the senior assistant to the Tataria prosecutor for media interaction, Ruslan Galiev. This activity, according to the prosecutor's office, is that the association seeks to set up public opinion against the law on "agents".

In April 2013, the agency reported, prosecutors have already revealed the fact of the financing of the Agora State Department of the United States. Then, in response to the submission with a request to register an agent of the NPO, she noticed that the agreement with the State Department terminated, and returned the money received. “However,” the prosecutor’s office says, “in fact, the Agora foreign financing has not stopped, and the specified organization continues to receive funds under other reports on foreign states, including the United States.”

In response, Chikov accused the prosecutor of "spreading false information." “Agora does not receive any money from foreign states, and at the same time never received them from the US State Department,” Open Information Agency reports the words of Chikov.

The social activist regarded the prosecutor's office as "unreasonable interference in the work of human rights organization and revenge for the fundamental position to defend the rights and legitimate interests of non -governmental organizations of Russia, for the second year repeling the attacks of prosecutors throughout the country." Chikov recalled that in July 2013, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika complained about Agora to Vladimir Putin.

“The prosecutor’s office considers the political activity of Agora’s political activity,” the head of the association added. The special irritation of the supervisory authority provokes, according to him, just a complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Law on Agents.