The Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation (a foreign NGO recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation) announced the suspension of its activities in Kyrgyzstan. Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reports this.
According to the group, the reason was to adopt a new law on non-profit organizations. As the fund receives funding from abroad, this leaves it subject to legal restrictions.
The group has been working in the republic since 1993.
According to an unnamed high-ranking official from Kyrgyzstan’s presidential administration, cited by the group, the team and many activists had known for a long time about the impending closure of the fund.
“Therefore, the link is in the rationale for the decision [о закрытии] to those recently adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament – approx. EADaily) [в закон об НКО] received with disbelief in the president’s administration,” – he said.
The official said that the family and the environment in recent years George Soros “rethinking ways of working and moving their operations from many countries. “
As previously reported, on April 2, the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov to sign the law on non-profit organizations that was adopted by the country’s parliament in March. According to him, there are about 2 thousand NGOs in Kyrgyzstan working with money from foreign donors. All must re-register as foreign agents.
In addition, the Kyrgyz leader said, to force him to refuse to sign the above law, the heads of more than 30 states put pressure on him. And the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken write a personal letter with veiled threats.
*An organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation
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2024-04-16 12:06:00
