Moscow Part of what had drawn the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) to visit Russia was the widely reported series of new rules imposed on non-governmental organizations almost a year ago by the Putin administration. We had heard contrary reports, but none of the information encouraged us to believe that something was happening that might …
Author: wade
Caging Democracy
Moscow The Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation has been getting some depressing reports about the state of democracy in the Russian Federation. United Russia, the governing party of Putin, is pretty much the single dominant part to the degree that over the last year Putin allowed the creation of an “opposition” party and made the appointments …
Biggest and Best NGOs
Moscow It is hard to imagine Sergey Tsyplenkov and Valentina Melnikova in the same room much less in the same sentence, but after meetings with each of them on two different days in Moscow they are linked in my mind as the creme of the non-profit crop in Moscow despite their differences. Sergey …