![]() ![]() Nothing is allowed without the boss’s blessing. This is a paternalistic approach in the very purest sense. Having solidified the power vertical among bureaucrats and law enforcement, the Kremlin is attempting to do the same among journalists, bloggers, and activists. Legislative initiatives are being developed simultaneously to control not only NGOs, but also the mass media and internet. This all fits in to a global context, in which civil societies are being built anew – and not from the bottom up. These organisations would do the government’s dirty work, and chain themselves up on its behalf GONGOs ![]() He reacts resolutely and becomes confrontational without a second thought. The Kremlin was seriously offended, and we know all too well how the President reacts to any challenges or threats. Lugovoi’s law was a move made out of desperation an admission of the failure of a plan in which these organisations would do the government’s dirty work, and chain themselves up on its behalf. Despite the law, however, and despite prosecutors’ inspections of hundreds of NGOs, not one organisation registered itself as such with the Ministry of Justice. To a very large extent, the recent amendments to the law on NGOs – including those authored by Liberal Democratic Party Deputy Alexander Lugovoi, which compelled NGOs to be registered as ‘foreign agents’ – were a reaction to civil society initiatives. ![]() Over the last two years dozens of debates with people of varying degrees of political influence and seriousness have been held, and were consistently ignored. His obstinacy on the subject is such that he ignores even rational arguments. Employees of NGOs are strongly convinced – not without some basis in fact – that the existence of laws concerning NGOs (including current ones) is down to the personal initiative of Vladimir Putin. We remember the prosecutors’ mass inspections of NGOs, from last year, which are now being frantically intensified. Recent developments in Russian laws concerning NGOs have led to much stricter rules for human rights activists. ![]()
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