From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/29/2006 1:13 AM Photo from www.gettyimages.com Photo from www.gettyimages.com Foreign Groups Say New NGO Law Impedes Their Operations in Russia
29.06.2006
MosNews Foreign non-governmental organizations are experiencing problems re-registering in Russia after a new law on NGOs came into force April 18, the business daily Vedomosti reported Thursday.
The Federal Registration Service said that none of the 40 foreign NGOs that applied for registration after the introduction of the law had managed to complete the process. It said there are currently between 500 and 2,000 foreign NGOs operating in Russia, and that all of them have to re-register before October 18 this year, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.
Sergei Tsyplenkov, executive director of Greenpeace Russia, said the new regulations were so ambiguous they gave officials a free hand in dealing with NGOs.
But the registration service said the new procedure was simple and “purely technical,” requiring only that a number of forms be filled out, a task it said foreign NGOs had failed to do.
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