Choking on Bureaucracy: State Curbs on Independent Civil Society Activism

Choking on Bureaucracy

State Curbs on Independent Civil Society Activism

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I. Summary

Methodology

II. Recommendations

To the Russian Government

To Russia’s International Partners, particularly the European Union and the Council of Europe

To Donors

III. Background

Dismantling Checks and Balances

Crackdown on Dissent and Political Opposition

Adoption of the 2006 NGO Law

Efforts to Discredit Human Rights and Foreign-Funded NGOs

Russia’s NGO Sector

Public Chamber

IV. The 2006 NGO Law

European Convention on Human Rights

Changes Introduced by the 2006 NGO Law at a Glance

The 2006 NGO Law in Practice

V. Other Types of Pressure on Civil Society

Administrative and Judicial Harassment

Acknowledgments

February 2008 Volume 20, No. 1(D)