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RUSSIA’S upper house of parliament ordered investigations yesterday into foreign organisations suspected of threatening national security.
The Federation Council sent a “patriotic stop-list” of a dozen suspicious outfits to the prosecutor-general and the justice and foreign ministries.
The list includes the US MacArthur Foundation, Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
Two Ukrainian organisations are also on the list.
The council asked the authorities to investigate the groups’ activities in Russia with a view to possibly declaring them undesirable under a recently passed law and shutting them down.
The law says organisations can be declared undesirable if they threaten Russia’s defence or constitutional order.
On Monday the Dynasty Foundation, which was due to give out £5.2 million in research grants this year, decided to close after being fined £3,500 under the law.
