The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation declared the association “For a Free Russia” (Stowarzyszenie “Za Wolna Rosje”) registered in Poland as an “undesirable” organization.
The ministry said in a statement that “the ideological inspirers of this organization are Anastasia Sergeeva and Maria Harmast, who fled to Poland and became residents of the EU countries.”
Sergeeva and Harmast, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation announced, “are involving Russians in the ranks of volunteer battalions as part of the armed forces of Ukraine, preparing so-called ‘resistance groups’.”
The founders of the organization, the report says, “come up with a sharp anti-Russian agenda” and “together with representatives of the non-systemic opposition who left Russia, they arrange theatrical and political actions for the Western public, designed to attract attention and money.”
The website of the association “For a Free Russia” is currently unavailable. From the information stored in the archives, it follows that the organization was founded in 2014 and declared its goal “the implementation of projects aimed at helping the democratic movement in Russia, informing about the problems and activities of the movement in Russia, offering intercultural dialogue, educational programs and the consolidation of the Russian democratic movement in Europe”.
In the association on Instagram, Mediazona draws attention , the last post was published in early January.
The list of “undesirable” organizations in Russia has existed since 2015. The Association “For a Free Russia” has become the 105th organization to which the Russian authorities have given this status.
For cooperation with “undesirable” organizations, Russian legislation provides for liability up to criminal.
Source : MEDUZA
