On 8 July, two of Russia’s largest NGOs—the Committee against Torture (KPP), which investigates police violence and abuse of power, and one of the country’s most active voluntary organisations, and Dynasty, a charitable foundation funding educational and scientific projects—announced that they were closing down.
The reason? Earlier that day, Russia’s Federation Council finally published a list of 12 organisations, whose activities were to be investigated by the General Prosecutor’s Office, Foreign and Justice Ministries regarding their compliance with Russian law.
‘Foreign agents’
As organisations receiving funding from abroad, KPP and Dynasty had been recently added to the official register of ‘foreign agents’; and both decided that they could no longer work under such conditions.
