The MacArthur Foundation, a US NGO that supports academic and human rights initiatives, will shut down its activities in Russia after lawmakers included it on a “patriotic stop list” of foreign groups.
Russia’s upper house of parliament asked the prosecutor general’s office, foreign ministry and justice ministry earlier this month to investigate whether the MacArthur Foundation and other NGOs should be declared “undesirable” under a new law that would ban them in Russia.
The 12 organisations listed on the stop list also included business magnate George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the US pro-democracy NGO Freedom House, as well as Polish and Ukrainian non-profits.
In a statement, the MacArthur Foundation said comments by legislators and inclusion on the stop list “make it clear that the Russian government regards MacArthur’s continued presence as unwelcome”.
“The recent passage and implementation of several laws in Russia make it all but impossible for international foundations to operate effectively and support worthy civil society organisations in that country,” it said.
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