Redemption payment

The regional public organization "Ecological Watch Sakhalin" returned the donation of the Leonardo DiCaprio fund in the amount of 159 thousand dollars, according to the NGO website. The general meeting of Ekovakhta decided to abandon any foreign financing in order to achieve the exclusion from the register of "foreign agents".

The NPO Grant received in July a project to preserve the Vostochny reserve and the adjacent wild salmon rivers. "This fund supports projects to preserve the last surviving corners of wildlife around the world, and Ekovakhta Sakhalin received his support for the first time in Russia," the report says. NPOs have already sent documents for a refund to the bank.

On the expense of Ekovakhta, the unused part of the charitable donation from the foreign NGO “Wild salmon Center” for the Program for Protecting and Preservation of Wild Pacific Salmon throughout Sakhalin remains. The remaining 30 thousand dollars will also be returned "in the very near future, after the settlement of technical procedures," the Eokovakhta notes.

“Earlier, in August of this year, Ekovakhta has already abandoned the Motta charity funds due to the fact that it was included in the Federation Council in the unofficial project of the so -called“ List of Unwanted Organizations. ”Since 2007, the Motta fund supported the organization of public environmental control and increase environmental standards in the oil and gas projects,” the report said.

The refusal of foreign financing will allow the cancellation of "official hanging the Label of the" foreign agent "at the NPO, they hope at Eokovakht.

On September 10, the "Ecological Watch of Sakhalin" received an act of the fourth for two years of an unscheduled inspection of the regional department of the Ministry of Justice. The department found the signing by the head of Ekovakhta by the head of the Ecovakhta by Dmitry Lisitsyn the letters of the Russian ecologists to Ukrainian colleagues with an expression of moral support, the posting of the organization’s pages on social networks to Vladimir Putin’s appeal to the need to protect the nature of the Arctic, as well as the numerous appeals of NPOs about violation of laws. On September 18, the Ministry of Justice brought Ekovakhta to the register of foreign agents.

On February 27, the State Duma adopted the presidential bill establishing the procedure for the exclusion of non -profit organizations from the register of "foreign agents". On March 20, the law entered into force. The law provides for three grounds for the exclusion of NPOs from the registry. The first is the cessation of the organization. The second is the lack of foreign financing for a certain time or its non -participation during the same time in political activity in Russia. The third is the refusal of the organization recognized by the "agent" from foreign financing and the return of money received or other property no later than 3 months after included in the register.

A number of NGOs have already managed to achieve exception from the registry.