Russia wants to recognize three Ukrainian organizations ‘undesirable’

The Ukrainian World Congress, the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council and the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights may be recognized as “undesirable organizations” in Russia.

Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said this to journalists, RIA Novosti news agency reports.

According to him, these organizations are suspected of posing “a threat to the constitutional order of the Russian Federation.”

He also added that the International Republican Institute (IRI) might be recognized as undesirable.

“The relevant structures collect and analyze information on this organization, on whether it constitutes a threat to the constitutional order of the Russian Federation,” he said.

In July 2015, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation appealed to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuriy Chaika, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and head of the Ministry of Justice Alexander Konovalov with the request to take additional measures to counter the “anti-Russian activities of foreign and international non-governmental organizations.”

The appeal included the patriotic “stop-list” of 12 organizations whose activity, according to the senators, is undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation.

The following organizations were put on the list: the Soros Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the MacArthur Foundation, Freedom House, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Education for Democracy foundation (FED), the East European Democratic Centre, the Ukrainian World Congress, the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council, and the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights.