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The FSB Directorate for Chechnya denies inspections of NGOs reported by Memorial
The FSB directorate for Chechnya does not conduct inspections of NGOs receiving foreign funding, the told RBC. department's press service
“Currently, the FSB Directorate for Chechnya does not conduct such checks. This information is not true,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He noted that the Ministry of Justice is authorized to carry out such work.
about checks allegedly carried out by employees of the economic security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, Center “E” and the FSB directorate for the republic and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District Earlier, the Memorial human rights center reported . “There are accusations against NPOs that they are engaged in subversive activities, performing the role of foreign agents, and at the same time do not send applications to the Ministry of Justice to include them in the “register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent,” human rights activists argued.
As Memorial noted, similar checks were carried out in Chechnya by employees of the economic security department of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs in the summer of 2016. Then NGOs were able to defend the right not to provide this data to the police.