Under Kremlin pressure, 'undesirable' U.S. charity pulls out of Russia

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Source: REUTERS / Yahoo

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its operations in Russia.

The MacArthur Foundation, which has operated in Moscow for more than 20 years - financing higher education, human rights and anti-nuclear proliferation campaigns - said new laws had made it "impossible to continue," by placing the charity on a list of "undesirable" organizations - a criticism it said was baseless.

"We are entirely independent of the United States government and receive no funding from it. We have never supported political activities or other actions that could reasonably be construed as meeting the definition of "undesirable," MacArthur Foundation President Julia Stasch said in a statement Tuesday.

More than 60 countries in the last three years have sought to curb the ability of non-profit groups to receive or use overseas funds, using a variety of justifications, the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed in an article earlier this month. Russia stiffened its laws on NGOs in November 2012, requiring those which engage in 'political activity' and receive any funding from abroad to register as 'foreign agents', a move decried by Kremlin critics as an attempt to muzzle dissent.

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[cosmicone]

1. If CIA had not used these NGOs for gathering intelligence

this wouldn't have happened.

India is shutting down many NGOs as well. No sovereign country will allow facilitation of the CIA against itself.

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2. lol. are you intentionally spinning Kremlin CT to cover Putin's ass

or did you come up with that on your own? And pls, no links to fake news sites

[cosmicone]

3. Here

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-bans-69-NGOs-from-receiving-foreign-funds/articleshow/46444242.cms

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/11/india-crackdown-foreign-funded-ngos

I support banning of CIA funded organizations and individuals.

[uhnope]

5. yeah, we know what you support http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=75

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=756407

Putin is a master politician http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=728035
Putin is a brilliant strategist http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=741749
Putin has a 27 year old hottie mistress http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=502107
Obama and Kerry look like schoolchildren as compared to the seasoned Russian diplomatic front -- perfectly timed and nuanced. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=591640
Putin just showed his middle finger to Obama n/t http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=547020
Amazing ... on this forum, the KGB (FSB) is guilty until proven innocent. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=433698

For a year, cosmicone has been posting love poems for Putin (or the KGB/FSB he was in, and then head of), and saying he's so much more masterful than the namby-pamby American politicians.

[cosmicone]

6. You are obviously free to disagree and I respect that

However, if we had not sent the CIA for a regime change in Ukraine so that we could help our Saudi and Qatari masters to sell natural gas to Europe, none of the adverse things that Putin did would have occurred.

Ukraine was needed to be captured to shut off Russian gas supplies to Europe and Syria's cooperation was needed to supply Saudi/Qatari gas to Europe via Turkey.

So -- we killed millions and displaced hundreds of thousands, created ISIS in the process with our weapons and made the lives of Syrians, Iraqis and Ukrainians for the benefit of Saudis and Qataris.

We have nothing to show for it than death and destruction.

If you make a living selling hot dogs and the CIA comes and digs trenches on both sides of your cart to help another hot dog vendor so your customers cannot get to your hot dogs, you'll do whatever it takes to keep the business from failing as well.

[uhnope]

7. Ukraine...ISIS...Qatari Masters...CIA hotdog carts...

[cosmicone]

8. Better than .....

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9. it's awesome when an open supporter of a fascist homophobic regime plays the Russophobe card

[cosmicone]

11. I am a supporter of neither

I just hate when someone blames the bees for stinging after throwing a stone at the hive.

[jamzrockz]

4. Right on

I cannot imagine any reason why any country would allow those war facilitators into their country. Whatever good they are doing would surpass the bad once they are used to convince the world that your country needs to be bombed. Anyone remember Libya?

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10. why yes, I do remember the brutal dictator Gaddafi. Why do you ask?

Was he also a misunderstood freedom-loving benevolent leader torpedoed by the evil USA?
And are you really calling NGOs "war facilitators"?