Russia Bans Protest Movement Ahead of Rallies Planned for Saturday

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THE MOSCOW TIMES https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russia-bans-protest-movement-ahead-of-rallies-planned-for-saturday-57831

This Wednesday, three days before the political movement “Open Russia” hopes to mobilize nationwide protests against the Kremlin, Russia’s Prosecutor General blacklisted the group as an “undesirable organization,” banning all its activities.

This Saturday, Open Russia is planning anti-Putin demonstrations across Russia. 

Russian officials formally blacklisted three separate organizations: the Britain-registered “Open Russia” organization, the social movement “Open Russia,” and the U.S.-based Institute of Modern Russia. Open Russia was founded by exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose son heads IMR in New York.

“Their activities are aimed at inciting protests and destabilizing [Russia’s] domestic political situation, presenting a threat to the constitutional foundations of the Russian Federation and the security of the state,” the Prosecutor General explained in a public statement.

Two American NGOs Declared 'Undesirable' in Russia

The decision makes it a criminal offense in Russia to work for Open Russia or IMR.

Russia’s law against “undesirable organizations” took effect in May 2015. Any group added to the list is immediately banned in Russia, and anyone who continues to work for these organizations faces serious fines and possible incarceration.

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Who are these? Not named? 

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5 hours ago, bruceq said:

Russia’s law against “undesirable organizations” took effect in May 2015

Well, we're not the only ones are we? But we do need to distance ourselves to remain "no part of the world". John 7:14

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   True there are also Political and press and many organizations undergoing restrictions for many years although interestingly USCIRF stated last week " it would mark the first time that Russia legally has banned a centrally-administered religious organization and would effectively criminalize all Jehovah’s Witnesses’. Of course freedom is not just religious but press and free speech are all being restricted. And those restrictions of freedom effect all that make up Jehovah's Witnesses : Press, Speech, Religion...Interesting that being "no part of the World" makes one  stand out to be picked on.

{of course a criminal organization as JW are now is quite different than a simple undesirable organization}.

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49 minutes ago, bruceq said:

the first time that Russia legally has banned a centrally-administered religious organization and would effectively criminalize all Jehovah’s Witnesses’.

You know, this is because they can't arrest our Leader can they? So they have to attack the organisation. I don't think they realise the significance of what they are doing at all. 

"So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went off to wage war with the remaining ones of her offspring, who observe the commandments of God and have the work of bearing witness concerning Jesus" Rev 12:17