Tuesday, September 6, 2016

TASS — Russian Justice Ministry source explains recognizing Levada-Center NGO a "foreign agent"

The source claims the non-commercial organization "had received most of its foreign financing from the United States"…
A Justice Ministry source told TASS that a random check carried out by the ministry’s Moscow branch had established that the Levada Center was financed by foreign sources and was involved in political activities in the territory of Russia in the interests of its foreign sponsors. The center prepares and distributes by means of modern information technologies their opinion on decisions passed by Russian bodies of state power and their policy and forms socio-political views and convictions.
"The inspection revealed that the Analytical Center of Yuri Levada …had received a large part of its funds from the United States, including a grant from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, which is curated by the U.S. Department of Defense," the source said.…

2 comments:

Salsabob said...

I'm sure the Kristallnacht was also considered a "random check."

Tom Hickey said...

False equivalence.

The US is already upset by the impact of RT and Sputnik even through they have had VOA for decades as well as many CIA run ops funded indirectly by the US government. If Russia had annoying thing like this, it would be shot down immediately.

China funds the Confucius Institutes on US campuses to present China in a favorable light. See Criticisms of Confucius Institutes