Russian lawmakers have backed legislation that could further restrict the work of international organisations in the country by tagging them as “undesirable”.
Voting in the second of three readings on Friday, the Duma lower house of parliament supported a bill to label some foreign non-governmental organisations as carrying out “undesirable activities”.
The legislation could limit the work of international NGOs, already caught up in the Kremlin’s clampdown on civil society during Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term.
In 2012 Russia adopted a controversial law to label organisations that receive funding from abroad as “foreign agents”.
Critics of the latest bill said that its vague wording could also harm commercial companies doing business in Russia and could be arbitrarily handed out, bypassing any court.
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