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Russia's Leading Human Rights Group Fined 21 Times for 'Foreign Agent' Violations

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Russia's Leading Human Rights Group Fined 21 Times for 'Foreign Agent' Violations

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The "foreign agent" label, which has applied to Memorial since 2013, is considered highly discrediting for organizations
and significantly disrupts their daily operations and finances.

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Since the late 1980s, Memorial has engaged in investigations of Soviet political repression. That work is becoming increasingly complicated. The organization has been repeatedly fined by Russian authorities for violations of the country's so-called foreign agent law. The latest fine was issued on Dec. 9 as Memorial lost a case in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court. A total of 300,000 rubles ($4,900) will now have to be paid to the Federal Treasury. That comes in addition to 20 previous fines. The total sum of the fines amounts to 4.2 million rubles ($67,000), Memorial says. According to Russian state media watchdog Roskomnadzor, Memorial had failed to add a "foreign agent" label to its website for a project about members of the Soviet secret service. The web portal includes information about members of the NKVD, a predecessor to the KGB, and their engagement in Stalin-era repressions. Representatives of the Federal Security Service (FSB) had filed complaints about the project portal, Memorial says. The "foreign agent" label is considered highly discrediting for organizations and significantly disrupts their daily operations and finances. Memorial has added the label on its front page. The organization’s lawyer Tamilla Imanova asked the court to reduce the fine, arguing that the violation inflicts insignificant harm on society. That request was rejected by the court, the 7x7 news website reported.

Memorial was added to the "foreign agent" list in 2013 following an inspection by the prosecutor general. The law that was adopted by Russian legislators in 2012 allows any organization that receives funding from abroad and involves in so-called political activity to be labeled as a "foreign agent." Memorial has over the years been divided into several units and regional organizations. Among them has been the Memorial human rights commission in the republic of Komi. That regional organization was however closed in late 2019, four years after it was put on the foreign agent list, 7x7 reported. In the republic of Karelia, located along the Finnish border, pressure against regional members of Memorial has increased. In December 2016, police arrested Yuri Dmitriev, the region's Memorial leader, for allegedly having made pornographic pictures of his adopted daughter. On April 5, 2018, the Petrozavodsk court acquitted him. Then, on July 14, the Karelian court canceled this decision, and all cases against Dmitriev are now combined into one. He remains behind bars in Petrozavodsk.
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Another way the Putin regime stifles discussion about its corruption and wars is via the "Foreign Agent" law. If any individual or organization in Russia receives even $1 in funding from a foreign government or NGO, they are declared a "foreign agent" which carries a pejorative connotation in Russia. This also applies to churches. When something is declared a 'foreign agent' Russians tend to stay away because they know Putin's security services are watching the organization closely. Memorial originally drew the ire of the Putin regime for exposing the secret-night time burials of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine and the NDA agreements their families had to sign.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Russia's Leading Human Rights Group Fined 21 Times for 'Foreign Agent' Violations

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The "foreign agent" label, which has applied to Memorial since 2013, is considered highly discrediting for organizations
and significantly disrupts their daily operations and finances.



Another way the Putin regime stifles discussion about its corruption and wars is via the "Foreign Agent" law. If any individual or organization in Russia receives even $1 in funding from a foreign government or NGO, they are declared a "foreign agent" which carries a pejorative connotation in Russia. This also applies to churches. When something is declared a 'foreign agent' Russians tend to stay away because they know Putin's security services are watching the organization closely. Memorial originally drew the ire of the Putin regime for exposing the secret-night time burials of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine and the NDA agreements their families had to sign.
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So it was wrong for Paul Manafort to not report being a foreign agent but this Russian group has a right to be an unregistered foreign agent
 
EMNofSeattle said:
So it was wrong for Paul Manafort to not report being a foreign agent but this Russian group has a right to be an unregistered foreign agent
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Are you seriously trying to compare Manafort who received MILLIONS of dollars compared to an organization that just needs to receive $1 of foreign aid to need to be registered as a foreign agent? Apples and oranges.
 
Praxas said:
Are you seriously trying to compare Manafort who received MILLIONS of dollars compared to an organization that just needs to receive $1 of foreign aid to need to be registered as a foreign agent? Apples and oranges.
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One dollar or one million dollars, it’s basically the same law and the amount required to trigger registration is purely an issue of prudential judgment
 
EMNofSeattle said:
One dollar or one million dollars, it’s basically the same law and the amount required to trigger registration is purely an issue of prudential judgment
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This applies to everything, churches also. The US FARA law is not anything like this.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
One dollar or one million dollars, it’s basically the same law and the amount required to trigger registration is purely an issue of prudential judgment
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In addition, the Russian law also applies to any funding received from any NGO (non-Governmental Organization).

The US FARA is nothing at all like this. Stop intimating that it is.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Russia's Leading Human Rights Group Fined 21 Times for 'Foreign Agent' Violations

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The "foreign agent" label, which has applied to Memorial since 2013, is considered highly discrediting for organizations
and significantly disrupts their daily operations and finances.



Another way the Putin regime stifles discussion about its corruption and wars is via the "Foreign Agent" law. If any individual or organization in Russia receives even $1 in funding from a foreign government or NGO, they are declared a "foreign agent" which carries a pejorative connotation in Russia. This also applies to churches. When something is declared a 'foreign agent' Russians tend to stay away because they know Putin's security services are watching the organization closely. Memorial originally drew the ire of the Putin regime for exposing the secret-night time burials of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine and the NDA agreements their families had to sign.
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Understanding how the US government operates with "NGO" in many foreign countries, like in Central and South America and elsewhere for decades, it is entirely possible that this "Human Rights Group" is really just a CIA front. That is how they operate.

Maybe this one is legit, maybe it's not.
 
Thoreau72 said:
Understanding how the US government operates with "NGO" in many foreign countries, like in Central and South America and elsewhere for decades, it is entirely possible that this "Human Rights Group" is really just a CIA front. That is how they operate.

Maybe this one is legit, maybe it's not.
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It's legit. The Russians would know after 40 years if it was CIA.
 
Rogue Valley said:
It's a legitimate human rights organization.
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Maybe it is, maybe it's not.

Considering the behavioral patterns of the US government, it's 50-50 that it's some sort of Soros/CIA sponsored NGO.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Not to the point of abject stupidity. At least, not most humans.
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Abject stupidity? You mean like 19 years on still believing the story about 19 arabs with box cutters? :lamo

That's not really abject stupidity, just a combination of most artful brainwashing and significant amounts of credulity in the masses.

Whether the human rights group you defend here is genuine or a CIA asset I don't know, and don't really care, but many such NGO types exist.
 
Thoreau72 said:
Abject stupidity? You mean like 19 years on still believing the story about 19 arabs with box cutters? :lamo

That's not really abject stupidity, just a combination of most artful brainwashing and significant amounts of credulity in the masses.

Whether the human rights group you defend here is genuine or a CIA asset I don't know, and don't really care, but many such NGO types exist.
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No. I mean like what you are doing now with a Russian organization that I personally know exists as a human rights organization.

That kind of stupid.

According to such a stupid modality, nothing is real.
 
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