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The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights appealed to the Federation Council, the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign Ministry with a request to remove the informal Crimean field mission to human rights from the list of "undesirable organizations." The text of the circulation is published on the website of the HRC.

The Crimean field mission was formed on March 5, 2014 at the initiative of a member of the HRC Andrei Yurov. This is an informal project to monitor the situation with human rights in Crimea.

"The Crimean field mission does not have the status of a legal entity and was never created as an organization. KPM has never been formed even as a public association, but exclusively as a temporary initiative of Russian human rights defenders and their colleagues from the CIS countries, based on the principle of universal value and the priority of human rights," the appeal said. The HRC also recalls that the law on "undesirable organizations" does not apply to the structures and citizens of the CIS member states.

The ACC is considered the activity of the KPM important and useful "for the development of civil society in the new subject of the Russian Federation."

The inclusion of KPM in the register of "undesirable organizations" seems to be "not only counterproductive, but also legally impossible," the reference is noted.

On July 8, the Council of People's Commissars demanded from the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice to check for the compliance of 12 foreign NPOs for compliance with Russian legislation , included in the so-called “patriotic stoplist”. “An unprecedented in scale” attracting NPOs, which are funded from state budgets of foreign states, to influence the domestic political situation gives reason to talk about “soft aggression” against Russia and its people, was noted in the circulation of the upper house.

The Patriotic Stop Listwas published the day before . The list, in addition to the KPM, included 11 NPOs: the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), the National Fund of Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Macarter Foundation, Freedom House, the Charles Stuarta Foundation, the Democracy Foundation, the Eastern European Democratic Center, the Universal Congress of Ukrainians, the Universal Congress of Ukrainians, the Ukrainian Congress. Ukrainian World Coordination Council.