More than fifty organizations have been recognized as divisions of the “Anti-Russian Separatist Movement”

The Ministry of Justice added the Anti-Russian Separatist Movement, banned in June, and 55 organizations that officials considered to be “structural subdivisions” of the latter to the register of extremist organizations. The First Department drew attention to the update of the register of extremist organizations on the Ministry of Justice website.

The list of extremist organizations includes, among others, the Free Russia Foundation , the Uralik Center for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, the Free Buryatia and Free Yakutia foundations, the Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, and fifty other organizations.

In the spring, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to recognize the "international public movement to destroy the multinational unity and territorial integrity of Russia" as an extremist organization. In early summer, the Supreme Court of Russia granted this request. Details about the content of the lawsuit and the court's decision were not reported.

Experts from the Sova research center pointed out that this could be a “rubber ban”: by recognizing a non-existent organization as “extremist,” security forces gain the opportunity to prosecute activists or ordinary citizens who, in one way or another, advocate for the decolonization of Russia or discuss regionalist ideas under “extremist” articles.

The full list of organizations that the Ministry of Justice considered to be “structural divisions” of the movement looks like this:

1. Informal association of indigenous peoples of the North "Aborigen Forum" (IPN "Aborigen Forum");
2. Public association "Indigenous Russia" or the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples;
3. Public organization "Circassian Committee" (Congress);
4. Foreign non-governmental non-profit organization "Circassian Cultural Center" (Republic of Georgia);
5. Public Association "The Council of United Circassia" Foundation;
6. Committee of the Bashkir National Movement Abroad;
7. Public movement "Free Idel-Ural"
8. Independent Government of Tatarstan (in exile);
9. Congress of the Buryat People;
10. National movement “Tusgaar Buryaad-Mongolia”;
11. Human Rights Center Ichkeria (HRCI);
12. Bashkir National Political Center;
13. Community "Pacifist Association of Sakha";
14. Cossack national liberation movement;
15. Moksha National Committee (Committee of Representatives of the Moksha People in Exile);
16. Free Circassia Movement;
17. Karelian National Movement;
18. Public movement "Ingush Independence Committee"
19. Nogai National Movement Abroad;
20. Social and political movement "Free Ingria"
21. Committee of Buryat Independence;
22. Movement for the independence of the Republic of Sakha;
23. Asians of Russia Foundation;
24. Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile;
25. World Chechen Congress;
26. Dagestan National Center;
27. Committee of the Independent Confederation of Siberia;
28. Movement "Raspberry Wedge - Independent Kuban"
29. Movement "Green Wedge - My Batkivshchyna"
30. Baltic Republican Party;
31. Movement "Don Republic"
32. Movement “Ezikovy Ertaul”;
33. NGO "Finno-Ugria" (Tallinn);
34. URALIC Centre of Indigenous Peoples (MTÜ Polistrahvaste Arengu Centre, Centre for the Development of Indigenous Peoples) (Estonia);
35. Smolensk Republican Center;
36. Regional movement "Free Karelia"/Free Karelia;
37. Public organization "Nogai El"
38. Government of the Independent Nogai Republic;
39. Free Pomorie;
40. Pomorskaya Sloboda (Pomorskaya Bjarmia);
41. Liberation movement "Free Udmurtia"
42. International organization "Free Nogaistan" (International movement for independence "Free Nogaistan");
43. Democratic movement “Buryad-Mongol Erheten”;
44. Free Buryatia Foundation;
45. Free Yakutia Foundation;
46. Anti-war ethnic movement "New Tuva"
47. "League of Free Nations";
48. Free Russia Foundation (Free Russia) (USA);
49. Free Dagestan;
50. Supreme Council of the Nogai People (Supreme Council of the Nogai People);
51. NGO "German Society for East European Studies GOVI"
52. Pskov Republic Movement;
53. Indigenous Peoples Alliance;
54. Diplomatic Council of Chuvashia, Volga Bulgaria;
55. Socio-political movement "Caucasian Union".

On July 30 , the German Society for East European Studies confirmed its inclusion in the register of extremist organizations by publishing a press release on its website.

“This decision has far-reaching consequences for all people who cooperate with the association in one way or another,” the text says , also stating that the Supreme Court’s decision is an attack on free science and illustrates the ongoing escalation of Russia’s repressive domestic and aggressive foreign policy.

The association appears on the list as the NGO "German Society for East European Studies GOVI". In March, the society was declared an "undesirable" organization in Russia.

• In recent years, the Ministry of Justice has repeatedly demanded that "movements" with an unspecified circle of participants, often not formally connected to each other, be recognized as "extremist." At the end of November last year, the Supreme Court called the "International LGBT Movement" such, allegedly operating in Russia "since 1984," and later the "interregional public movement" "I/We Sergey Furgal," consisting of supporters of the convicted former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal, was recognized as an "extremist organization." At the same time, the participants in the actions for the release of the former governor have never organized into a separate formal movement. Back in 2020, the AUE subculture — "prisoner criminal unity" — was declared an "extremist organization." According to the Prosecutor General's Office, this is a "youth movement of an extremist orientation," whose participants organize "mass riots."