The inspectors of the Ministry of Justice considered Perm-36 "Foreign Agent"

The Department of the Ministry of Justice in the Perm Territory discovered in the activities of ANO "Perm-36" the grounds for including NPOs in the register of "foreign agents". This follows from the act of an unscheduled on-site inspection, the NGO press service reports .

In addition, ANO leadership is going to attract to administrative due to the fact that the organization has not filed an application to include itself in the register, as well as in connection with the failure to provide the requested by verifiers of accounting documents.

The organization does not intend to recognize itself as a foreign agent, said NPO Director Viktor Shmyrov. The decision of the Ministry of Justice will be challenged.

"As for the failure to provide documents, this is another detective story. Because the documents are in the very archive of our organization, which we can’t get into for almost a year and which is seemed to be sealed in connection with a police check , we have learned about the newspapers about the audit itself, and we have not received an official notification," Shmyrov said.

Meanwhile, last week, negotiations of the Chairman of the Council for the Development of the Memorial Museum of the History of Political Repression of Perm-36, Vladimir Lukin, with the leadership of the Volga Federal District on the fate of the museum, ended. The result of these agreements was the adoption of a memorandum, said Shmyrov. In the near future, the second meeting of the Council should be held in Perm, at which it is planned to consider and sign an agreement between the Government of the Perm Territory and the board of the Perm-36 ANO.

Negotiations were resumed as a result of the intervention of the presidential administration after a statement of the NPO of self -destruction . The reason for such a decision was the disruption of the regional administration of the negotiations that began in the fall about the fate of the museum.

On March 17, the NPO received an official notification of the regional administration of the Ministry of Justice on the start of the audit on the status of "foreign agent" . According to the press secretary of the organization Andrei Nikitin, the reason for the audit was the appeal of "some preoccupied citizens" to the Ministry of Justice’s management.

The Perm-36 Museum began work in 1996 at the site of the colony in the village of Kuchino of the Chusovsky district. The camp, later transformed into a colony VS-389/36, was opened here in 1946. In the 1970s, political prisoners began to be sent here. Here, the deadlines were serving, in particular, Vladimir Bukovsky, Sergey Kovalev, Yuri Orlov, Valery Marchenko, Nathan Scheransky, Gleb Yakunin, Levko Lukyanenko, Evgeny Sverstyuk, Balis Gauskas. Here the outstanding Ukrainian poet Vasil Stus died. In 1988, the colony was closed.

In 2004, the Fund of World Monuments included the Perm-36 museum in the list of 100 specially protected monuments of world culture. Later, the procedure for including the object in the UNESCO World Heritage List began.

Meanwhile, since 2012, the regional authorities have completely stopped financing the museum’s restoration and restoration work, to promote it to the World Heritage List, to work on the Perm-36 Development Program, which is necessary to give the object the status of the museum and memorial center of national significance.

In 2014, the authorities of the region formed a state institution "Memorial complex of victims of political repression." This structure occupied the territory of the museum and seized its property . ANO was deprived of control of the object.