The Ministry of Justice recognized the Czech organization “Man in Need” working in Chechnya and Donbass as “undesirable”

The Ministry of Justice, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, entered the Czech non-governmental organization Man in Need into the register of "undesirable" organizations. The reasons for the decision were not specified in the ministry's press release .

The organization "Man in Need" has been working in Russia in Chechnya since 2000: in particular, delivering food and clothes to Grozny, repairing schools and hospitals, helping with the return of refugees, but in 2005 the authorities did not extend their accreditation to work in Russia after accusations of ties with the separatists.

They also delivered in 2016 humanitarian aid to residents of eastern Ukraine from the outbreak of hostilities in the spring of 2014, until the authorities of the self-proclaimed DPR revoked their accreditation . Despite this, they continued to work in the region.

The NPO was founded in 1992 by a group of war correspondents to provide assistance to residents of war zones. To date, they are working in more than 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where, in addition to humanitarian assistance, they are engaged in the protection of human rights and assistance in the assimilation of migrants.

Among their donors are the World Bank, the European Commission, UN agencies, the US State Department and other government agencies and well-known NGOs. There, in particular, there are other "undesirable organizations": the Open Society Foundation of financier George Soros and the National Democratic Institute of the US government.

"Man in Need" became the 19th organization in the register: getting there means that its accounts in Russia will be frozen, and its subsidiaries will be closed. If she continues to work, she faces a fine, and her employees face administrative and criminal prosecution, as happens with supporters of Open Russia. In the summer, was introduced there. the Atlantic Council, headed by the former American ambassador to Russia, John Huntsman,