Kudrin called “flawed” law on “foreign agents” – RBC

The head of the “Committee of Civil Initiatives”, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin

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As Kudrin wrote in his Twitter, «Adding Foundation” Dynasty “in the list of foreign agents shows that the relevant law is flawed.” Earlier today the inclusion of Dmitry Zimin Foundation “Dynasty” in the register NKO- “foreign agents,” the Justice Ministry said.

the ministry stated that “the fact of compliance” of the organization featured a “foreign agent” have been established in the course of routine inspections . In addition to the Foundation “Dynasty”, “foreign agent” is recognized fund of theoretical and applied research “Liberal Mission” former Economy Minister Yevgeny Yasin Russia.

the evening of May 25 the founder of Home Foundation “Dynasty” and the company “VimpelCom” Dmitry Zimin Facebook has been hacked into. Hackers have posted on behalf of the Zimin comment for inclusion in the register of fund “foreign agents».

The Foundation “Dynasty” was created in 2002, Zimin. In 2014, the program budget of the Fund amounted to 352 million rubles. “Dynasty” is one of the private sponsors of projects in the field of science and education in Russia.

At this point the registry NKO- “foreign agents” includes 65 organizations. The law requiring financed from abroad political NGOs to register as foreign agents, was passed by the Parliament in 2012. In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law governing the organization of the output from the register of foreign agents. NGOs can leave registry if during the last year was not financed from foreign sources and not engaged in political activity in Russia.