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177 Radical Russian Orthodox Activist to Lecture on
Whether Putin Will Become God, The Moscow Times
(September 2, 2014) http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
news/article/radical-russian-orthodox-activist-to-lecture-on-whether-putin-will-become-god/506325.html.
178 Lena Jonson, Russia: Cultural Freedom under
Threat, Freemuse Insight Series for Artsfreedom.org
(May 11, 2015) http://artsfreedom.org/?p=9026.
179 Russia: Theatre director fired for staging opera
that offended church, Artsfreedom.org (April 2, 2015)
http://artsfreedom.org/?p=8757; Neil MacFarquhar
and Sophia Kishkovsky, Russian Theater Director Fired
for Offending Christians, The New York Times (March
29, 2015), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/
world/europe/russian-theater-director-fired-for-offending-christians.html,
Документ дня: Церковь
против искусства [Document of the Day: Church
against Art], Lenta.ru (February 26, 2015) http://Lenta.
ru/articles/2015/02/26/tangezerdoc/.
180 Kashmira Gandir, Russia fires director of Wagner’s
Tannhauser opera after modern interpretation offends
nation’s Orthodox Christians, The Independent
(March 30, 2015) http://www.independent.co.uk/
arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/russia-fires-director-of-wagners-tannhauser-opera-after-modern-interpretation-offends-nations-10145035.html.
181 Russia: Theatre director fired for staging opera that
offended church, Artsfreedom.org (April 2, 2015) http://
artsfreedom.org/?p=8757.
182 Leonid Bershidsky, Russia Tries Cracking Down
on Opera, Bloomberg View, (March 10, 2015) http://
www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-10/russiatries-cracking-down-on-opera.
183 Fact Sheet: Russia’s NGO Laws Freedom
House, available at: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/
default/files/Fact%20Sheet_0.pdf.
184 Russia: Government against Rights Groups, Human
Rights Watch (October 29, 2015) https://www.hrw.org/
news/2015/10/29/russia-government-against-rightsgroups.
185 Heather McGill, Russian NGOs cynically treated
like enemies of the state, Amnesty International (November
13, 2015) https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/
news/2015/11/russian-ngos-cynically-treated-like-enemies-of-the-state/.
186 Id. Although there was a distinct wave of inspections
in 2013, and again in 2014, inspections of
NGOs still occur, and NGOs operate under the risk
that they could be inspected. Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber,
Hundreds of Russian NGOs Penalized Last Year Amid Government
Crackdown, The Moscow Times, (March 24,
2015) http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/
hundreds-of-russian-ngos-penalized-last-year-amidgovernment-crackdown/517935.html.
187 Russia: Government against Rights Groups, Human
Rights Watch (October 29, 2015) https://www.hrw.org/
news/2015/10/29/russia-government-against-rightsgroups.
188 Id. Human Rights Watch maintains a list of
actions against NGOs under the foreign agents law,
including registrations and court cases, available at:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/29/russia-government-against-rights-groups.
See also a list of cases,
including articles, related documents, and map, maintained
by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, available
at: http://www.rferl.org/section/crackdown-on-ngosin-russia/3272.html.
189 Claire Bigg, Under Fire: Russian Book-Burning
Prompts Dismay, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
(January 14, 2016) http://www.rferl.org/content/russiabooks-burned-soros/27488173.html;
Press Release,
Russia Cracks Down on Open Society, Open Society
Foundations (November 30, 2015), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/russia-cracksdown-open-society.
190 Katherine Jacobsen, Russian Authorities Burn
Books Published with Soros Funds, ABC News (January
14, 2016), http://abcnews.go.com/International/
wireStory/russian-authorities-burn-books-published-soros-funds-36281654;
Kalyeena Makortoff,
Soros charity targeted in Russia book-burning, CNBC,
(January 14, 2016), http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/14/
soros-charity-targeted-in-russia-book-burning.html.
191 United Nations Human Rights Committee,
Concluding Observations on the Seventh Periodic Report of
the Russian Federation, adopted on March 31, 2015,
22 available at: https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ccpr_c_
rus_co_7_19979_e-1.pdf.
192 Russia’s Putin Signs Law Against ‘Undesirable’
NGOs, BBC Europe (May 24, 2015) http://www.bbc.
com/news/world-europe-32860526; NGO Law Monitor:
Russia, International Center for Not-for-Profit
Law (October 2, 2015), http://www.icnl.org/research/
monitor/russia.html.
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