Formed "Patriotic Stop List"

The Federation Council drew up a draft list of undesirable foreign non -governmental organizations.

It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the Council of Council.

According to him, 12 organizations are included in the Patriotic Stop List project: 12 organizations are included:

• Institute "Open Society" (Soros Foundation)
• National Fund of Democracy
• International Republican Institute
• National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
• Makanturov Foundation
• Freedom House
• Charles Foundation Stuart Motta
• Foundation "Education for Democracy"
• East European Democratic Center
• World Congress of Ukrainians
• Ukrainian World Coordination Council
• Crimean field mission on human rights

Earlier, at a press conference, the speaker of the Council of Council Valentina Matvienko called the same number of positions in the "patriotic stop list". The basis for the inclusion of NPOs in the list, she explained, were the appeals of the authorities of the regions, on the territory of which foreign NPOs that do not have branches in Russia work. According to Matvienko, the list will make it possible to make transparent and understandable the work of these NGOs for public organizations and government structures.

The chairman of the Council of Constitutional Legislation, Andrei Klishas, ​​recently stated that in addition to appeals from the regions, when compiling the list, information provided by the Ministry of Justice, the FSB and the Prosecutor General’s Office is taken into account.

Earlier, the head of the Council of International Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev appealed to the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Justice with a request to check the activities of unwanted organizations under the current legislation, noting that the United States uses any excuse to “fall Russia and establish external control of the situation in our country and our people”.