HR Council wants 'foreign agent' status dropped from NGO bill

Published time: July 12, 2012 11:42
Edited time: July 12, 2012 16:08
RIA Novosti/Dmitry Astakhov

Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights has worked out amendments to the bill on Non-Government Organizations (NGO) and suggested removing the wording “foreign agents” from the document.

The Council proposes to replace “foreign agents” status with “an NGO that receives funding from abroad for carrying out political activities,” the organization’s website reports.

Rights advocates also suggest including into the text a clause saying that the law does not apply to political activities that foreign funded NGOs were involved in before the document comes into effect. Now the bill reads only that it comes into force 90 days after its official publication.

It is expected that the lower house, the State Duma, will consider the legislation in the second and third readings on July 13.

A week earlier the bill – which triggered a wave of criticism from rights activists and non-parliamentary opposition – was approved in the first reading.

On Tuesday President Vladimir Putin told human rights representatives that he supported the idea of the bill proposed by United Russia, but still wants to put his amendments to it. “This law does not prohibit anything,” Putin stressed. “Its main aim is to make the political activity of organizations operating in Russia transparent,” Putin said.

He also said he would suggest increasing state funding to NGOs by at least three times, from 1billion rubles ($30 million) to 3 billion ($91 million) as the new law may reduce the amount of money they normally receive from foreign funds.

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Amit kumar (unregistered) 19.02.2013 15:16

i want to agent and member in ngo company.

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@ kafantaris DON'T DISHONOR NATHAN HALE'S LEGACY WITH YOUR LIES (unregistered) 14.07.2012 17:47




THE REAL NATHAN HALES ARE IN THE STREETS OF THE US PROTESTING THE GLOBAL NATO PLUTOCRACY

Na than Hale was a true revolutionary who was executed in cold blood by the most powerful Imperial Army of the world from the British Empire...JUST LIKE NATO, today. If Nathan Hale were alive today he would be outraged at some plutocratic tool like yourself associating his name with this vile NATO/ Saudi America Empire that kills American soldiers for money. Let's take a look at who's oppressing who;  

As you are babbling the Fascist line, kafantaris,
 
Innocent people are being clubbed and subdued by force in Spain. 
The French are having austerity riots and strikes..
Destitu te people in Greece and Italy are committing suicide..
.The UK has to deploy 20,000 troops and a missile array on the rooftops of London to have a simple sports event. 
Tens of thousands of people in Mexico are dying in drug wars
All the countries that NATO destroyed & occupied are now criminal cesspools being exploited by the West. 

The 'Arab Springs' all over the Middle East have turned into reactionary Islamist take-overs

An d last but not least, the REAL NATHAN HALES are in the streets of the US protesting the global NATO plutocracy

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kafantaris 14.07.2012 15:06

The Russian and Chinese strongmen can continue to restrict access to information, but this only increases the thirst for freedom.   Indeed, as long as people can read, see, hear, and speak, they will learn the truth of how others live in the world.  The steamroller of the information age has been heading to greet these totalitarian regimes for decades now.  It has momentum.  There is no stopping it.  The relentless efforts to do so merely add to the pent-up anger and frustration of the people.  And their government has yet to see what is there already.  Yes, it can raid their homes and their offices; it can arrest them on bogus charges; it can torture them. But these measures only fan the fires of freedom. And these fires will not go out by killing the people in whose chests they are burning.  Already there are plenty of Nathan Hales in Russia and China whose only regret is that they have but one life to give for freedom in their country.

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