“The law is being adopted specifically for us.” Why is the Open Russia organization being liquidated?
“It’s unpleasant, it’s painful. It’s a shame to close a structure to which you devoted so much time,” Andrey Pivovarov, former executive director of Open Russia , tells OVD-Info . “The discussion of our steps to protect activists began in May, when we saw the new bill. We considered the possibility of legally fighting off the security forces, but all legal practice suggests that this is impossible.