Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications

Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications

The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismaye...

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Main Author: Olga Oleinikova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2017-12-01
Series:Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Subjects:
NGOs
Foreign Funding
Regulations
Ukraine
Russia
Belarus
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/5637
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spelling doaj-978e86890a0440d2906b99d82327c3212020-11-25T01:03:11ZengUTS ePRESSCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal1837-53912017-12-019310.5130/ccs.v9i3.5637Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and ImplicationsOlga Oleinikova0School of Communication, University of Technology SydneyThe opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismayed at recent legislation setting up new barriers to this practice. This paper discusses the new laws and restrictive amendments to legislative acts on the operations of foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, adopted since 2011.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/5637NGOsForeign FundingRegulationsUkraineRussiaBelarus
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Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
NGOs
Foreign Funding
Regulations
Ukraine
Russia
Belarus
author_facet Olga Oleinikova
author_sort Olga Oleinikova
title Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
title_short Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
title_full Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
title_fullStr Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
title_full_unstemmed Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications
title_sort foreign funded ngos in russia, belarus and ukraine: recent restrictions and implications
publisher UTS ePRESS
series Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
issn 1837-5391
publishDate 2017-12-01
description The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismayed at recent legislation setting up new barriers to this practice. This paper discusses the new laws and restrictive amendments to legislative acts on the operations of foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, adopted since 2011.
topic NGOs
Foreign Funding
Regulations
Ukraine
Russia
Belarus
url https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/5637
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