Russian Duma proposal to create internet censorship

[Alina Israeli]

Here is the 1938 law, Putin's law is modeled after: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act

The recipients of foreign grants, such as grants from Aga Khan  
foundation http://www.akdn.org/akf_projects.asp do not have to  
register as foreign agents. Many of my non-Slavists colleagues  
received grants from Canada, Latin America etc. and they did not have  
to register as foreign agents either, nor did the university.

On the other hand, lobbying on behalf of a foreign country requires  
registration as "agents of a foreign principal". What is prohibited is  
funding political campaigns with foreign money.

If you look at the long list of foundations http://www.fundsforngos.org/category/foundation-funds-for-ngos/ 
  (not all of them American, although many are), they fund health  
issues, human rights issues, education in African, Asia as well as  
close to home and that does not make them US agents or British agents  
nor does it make the recipients foreign agents neither in reality nor  
by law.

On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Elena Gapova wrote:

> As the issue has been touched, what are American laws (if there are  
> any) regarding foreign funding for NGOs? How are these regulated?  
> The reason for my interest is a frequent referral to the new Russian  
> bill regarding NGOs as a gross violation of rights.
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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