A total of 31 foreign organizations have been liquidated in Russia so far in 2022, the Deputy Secretary of the Council reported on Monday of Security, Alexandr Grebenkin.
“This year, due to repeated and serious violations of Russian law, 18 offices and representations of non-governmental organizations were liquidated foreign and international organizations, and the activities of 13 organizations from the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Ukraine and other countries were declared undesirable with subsequent prohibition,” Grebenkin said in a statement. interview with Rossískaya Gazeta.
In addition, seven non-profit organizations, 13 legal entities and 48 Individuals were declared “foreign agents”, he added.
According to Grebenkin, these measures made it possible to “timely stop attempts at foreign interference in Russian affairs”.
The European Union condemned in July the Russian law of “foreign agents” on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of its entry into force and indicated that its recent tightening further deprives the population of Russia of “independent information on illegal actions and atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine” .
At the end of last year, the Russian Justice ordered the dissolution of International Memorial, the main human rights NGO in this country, for allegedly violating the law on foreign agents.
In March 2022, the country’s Supreme Court dismissed the defense appeal against the liquidation of the organization, considered the voice of the Soviet reprisals.