Russia Labels Khodorkovsky-Linked Groups Undesirable
RFE
Russian authorities have taken further action against the network of exiled former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The State Prosecutor s Office on June 30 labeled four organizations linked to the Kremlin critic as undesirable, effectively banning their activities in Russia.
The four nongovernmental organizations are the UK-registered Khodorkovsky Foundation, its subsidiary the Oxford Russia Fund, the London-based Future of Russia Foundation, and the French organization European Choice.
The organizations pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor s Office said in a statement.
The undesirable organization law, adopted in May 2015 and since updated, was part of a series of regulations pushed by the Kremlin that squeezed many nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations that received funding from foreign sources mainly from Europe and the United S