Communists want Soros Foundation branded ‘undesirable’ group

Georges Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management (Reuters/Charles Platiau)

Georges Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management (Reuters/Charles Platiau)

Two senior lawmakers from the Communist Party caucus have asked Russian prosecutors to use the recently introduced law on “undesirable” foreign groups against George Soros’s Open Society organization.

The anti-Russian activities of Soros’s foundation must be
recognized as undesirable before they assume the destructive
forms that we could observe in Ukraine, Georgia and other
countries
,” MPs Valery Rashkin and Sergey Obukhov said,
appealing to the Prosecutor General.

The Communist leaders claimed that the Open Society NGO had
conducted “persistent anti-Russian activities for decades and
that it happened both in Russia and in other countries. They said
that the group was allegedly promoting hatred against Russians in
Ukraine and also launched some “proxy subversive
operations
” in the Russian Federation.

In particular, the two MPs blamed George Soros’s NGO for the
destruction of the Russian education system, manifested in the
much-criticized system of single state exams for schoolchildren
as well as underfinancing of schools and institutes.

The Law on Undesirable Foreign Groups that came into force
earlier this week charges the Prosecutor General’s Office
together with the Foreign Ministry with the task of creating an
official list of “undesirable foreign organizations” and
outlaw their activities in the country. The main criterion for
putting a foreign or international NGO on the list is “the
threat to the Constitutional order and the defense capability or
security of the Russian State
.”

From left: First deputy chairman of the State Duma's Committee for Ethnic Affairs Valery Rashkin, left, and deputy chairman of the Duma's Committee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations, Sergei Obukhov, at the Duma's plenary session. (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko)

Once the group is recognized as undesirable all its assets in
Russia must be frozen, offices closed and distribution of any of
its information materials must be banned. Violating the bill is
punished with heavy fines both for the personnel of the banned
organizations and Russian citizens who cooperate with them. A
repeat offense can carry up to six years in prison.

From the moment it was drafted, the new law was sharply
criticized by the Russian rights community, foreign NGOs and
officials. The European Union and the United States have
officially expressed their concern over it and warned that the
move banning cooperation with various foreign groups could bring
about the isolation of the Russian people from the outside world.

The two opposition MPs who originally drafted the bill have
described it as a preventive measure and denied that it was
targeting any specific foreign organizations.

The Open Society Institute, also known as the Soros Foundation
after its main sponsor, US billionaire George Soros, has worked
in Russia since 1995 and financed many projects in the
humanitarian and educational spheres. In 2003, the organization
stopped issuing direct grants and announced that it had stopped
all Russian operations but to this day it maintains
representative offices in Russia’s four largest cities – Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk.

READ MORE: ‘Self-appointed advocate of new
Ukraine’: Soros emails leaked by anti-Kiev hackers

George Soros has openly admitted that his organizations played a
key role in the so called “color revolutions” – forceful regime
changes through violent political rallies – in many post-Soviet
states, including Ukraine and Georgia.

Earlier this month a group of hackers from Ukraine released some
leaked texts that show that Soros was still actively involved in
the Ukrainian politics, advocating EU financial aid and military
assistance to Ukraine to restore Kiev’s fighting capacity without
violating the Minsk peace deal.

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