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<DIV class=timestamp>October 20, 2006</DIV>
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<H1><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">Kremlin Puts Foreign NGO’s on Notice
</NYT_HEADLINE></H1><NYT_BYLINE type=" " version="1.0">
<DIV class=byline>By <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/c_j_chivers/index.html?inline=nyt-per
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/c_j_chivers/index.html?inline=nyt-per">C.
J. CHIVERS</A></DIV></NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT>
<DIV id=articleBody>
<P>MOSCOW, Oct. 19 — Scores of foreign private organizations were forced to
cease their operations in <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Russia</A>
on Thursday while the government considered whether to register them under a new
law that has received sharp international criticism.</P>
<P>Among the suspended organizations are some of those most critical of the
Kremlin, including <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/human_rights_watch/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/human_rights_watch/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Human
Rights Watch</A> and <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/amnesty_international/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/amnesty_international/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Amnesty
International</A>, and others, like the National Democratic Institute and the
International Republican Institute, that have been accused by Russian officials
of instigating or assisting revolutions against other former Soviet
republics.</P>
<P>The Justice Ministry, which is responsible for registering foreign private
organizations, insisted that the suspensions were neither retaliatory nor
permanent. </P>
<P>It issued a statement saying the suspended organizations had not properly
filed new registration materials or had submitted the required materials on the
last day before the registration deadline, which was midnight Wednesday. It said
it was rushing to review the applications it had received.</P>
<P>“It is important to note that lack of reregistration does not entail the
liquidation of the organization,” the statement said. “The talk here is only
that these organizations cannot carry out the activity envisaged by their
charters before they are brought into the register.”</P>
<P>The number of suspended organizations is not entirely clear. The statement
said the ministry had received applications from 185 organizations, approved 108
of them and continued to review the 77 others. </P>
<P>But the suspensions were the latest chapter in Russia’s pressure on foreign
organizations that have offices on its soil. They occurred in a climate of
deepening worry about the Kremlin’s crackdown on civil society and just days
before a planned visit by Secretary of State <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/condoleezza_rice/index.html?inline=nyt-per
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/condoleezza_rice/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Condoleezza
Rice</A>.</P>
<P>Ms. Rice has expressed concern about the law regulating foreign private
organizations, known as nongovernmental organizations, or NGO’s, which was
passed earlier this year.</P>
<P>Some Russian officials, including Nikolai P. Patrushev, the chief of the
domestic intelligence service, have accused the groups of interfering with state
affairs or even harboring spies.</P>
<P>The new law, strongly backed by President <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Vladimir
V. Putin</A>, created extensive new filing requirements, which in some cases the
organizations said had been so tedious and lengthy as to be almost impossible to
fulfill. The groups have also expressed apprehension over the rules’ vagueness,
which could allow any group to be audited, and perhaps closed, on a pretext.
</P>
<P>They and their supporters have said that how the law is enforced will be a
test of whether Russia will allow foreign organizations that it dislikes to
continue to work in the country. The first deadline, and its effects on
Thursday, were accompanied by a strong sense of concern, even fear.</P>
<P>“My fear is that their intention is to shut us down,” Josh Rubenstein, a
director at Amnesty International, said by telephone. Amnesty International has
had an office in Russia since the days of the last Soviet leader, <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/mikhail_s_gorbachev/index.html?inline=nyt-per
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/mikhail_s_gorbachev/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Mikhail
S. Gorbachev</A>, he said.</P>
<P>The Justice Ministry posted a list of 73 organizations that were not yet
approved, and thus were suspended. At least 38 of those were listed by the
ministry as American or had a clear American affiliation, including the <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_bar_association/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_bar_association/index.html?inline=nyt-org">American
Bar Association</A>, the American-Russian Business Council, the American Trade
Chamber and <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/johns_hopkins_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/johns_hopkins_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Johns
Hopkins University</A>. </P>
<P>The suspended Western organizations also included the Danish Refugee Council
and the French and Belgian offices of <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/doctors_without_borders/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/doctors_without_borders/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Doctors
Without Borders</A>.</P>
<P>Other news organizations reported that nearly 100 groups had been suspended,
but did not provide a list. The Associated Press quoted one Justice Ministry
official as saying that 96 groups had been suspended, while the Itar-Tass news
agency later quoted the same official as saying the number was 93.</P>
<P>While the ministry said it had approved 108 organizations for registration,
it provided a list of only 80. </P>
<P>Forty-one of those were American, including the <A
title=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/ford_foundation/index.html?inline=nyt-org
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/ford_foundation/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Ford
Foundation</A>, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Moscow office of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Of the 41, 33 appeared to be child
adoption agencies.</P>
<P>As the day passed with offices idled, some of the affected groups declined to
comment, saying they worried about antagonizing Russia while their registration
documents were under review. </P>
<P>Others described a new posture their offices had assumed on Thursday: they
abruptly stopped their work and programs but left their lights on and offices
staffed. </P>
<P>Carroll Bogert, an associate director at Human Rights Watch, said by
telephone from New York that its employees in Russia were still being paid, “but
otherwise we are not operating in Russia.” She said she expected that the office
would be registered once its documents were reviewed, and that the organization
did not feel that it was a specific target.</P>
<P>The cessation of some organizations’ activities was denounced by their
partners in the country. </P>
<P>Elena Panfilova, director of the Russian chapter of Transparency
International, an anticorruption organization, said her office was registered as
a domestic, not foreign, organization and so was not directly affected by the
new procedures.</P>
<P>But she said she had work planned with other groups, which now were unable to
meet with her. “It is appalling,” she said. “It is a total disgrace.”</P>
<P>The Justice Ministry said it was working to expedite the registrations and
blamed the organizations for not providing required
documentation.</P></DIV></NYT_TEXT>
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<DIV>September 17, 2005</DIV>
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align=center><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt">PUTINES
CUBANOS EN EL HORIZONTE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt">por
Miguel Uría<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt">Putines
cubanos en el horizonte. Ditto marxismo en alguna medida. Financiado con
dólares. Putín Raúl, Putines Generales de División. Putín Colomé, Putines
et al. Otro churro o ajiaco a la Rusia o Nicaragua donde la
misma nomenclatura en gran medida no cambió y aun sostiene el poder. (1) Un
verdadero crimen y jamás justificable después de 41 años de sangre y
sufrimientos y tantos valores humanos perdidos. Mas seis.</SPAN><SPAN
lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt">¿Quién
emerge al desplomarse económicamente la Unión Soviética? Uno que no había que
buscar.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Estaba allí.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nadie se fué.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nadie tuvo que irse.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>¿Quién? El Putín Putín, Coronel de la
"</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">KGB
Vladimir V. Putín, el ahora Presidente Ruso.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Este señor, "a nombre de la política de
"Democracia Dirigida" ya le devolvió el poder al Kremlin. Destruyó toda
autonomía regional, marginó la oposición democrática y convirtió la televisión
en instrumento de propaganda". (2)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mas aun y de otra
fuente: "Putín describe el final de la Unión Soviética que liberó a Europa
Oriental y a miles de personas como <<la catástrofe mas grande del
siglo>>. "El derrumbamiento de la Cortina de Hierro fue uno de los
capítulos mas gloriosos del siglo 20 y la inhabilidad de Putin de manifestarlo
así, dice volúmenes sobre su hostilidad a la libertad y
democracia"<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">En
cantidades enormes dinero y otros recursos entraron en la ahora Rusia para
ayudar al cambio.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Y ¿qué ha hecho y
tiene para enseñar el Putín Putín de esos recursos regalados?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lo mismo que Castro en Cuba con los
billones soviéticos, los billones del contrabando, los billones del lavado de
dinero, los billones del tráfico de drogas, los billones de la venta del
patrimonio nacional, los billones en remesas del exilio que no perdona, los
billones venezolanos.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Los billones
de…….. la próxima víctima idiota que tengan en la mirilla.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mientras dure, y por ahora,
Venezuela.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FIN<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(1)
Peter Baker y Susan Glasser "Kremlin Rising".</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Nota:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tres
artículos del mismo autor Miguel Uria que reflejan mas ampliamente los conceptos
aquí barajados:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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y otros excelentes artículos del mismo AUTOR aparecen en la <BR>REVISTA
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