The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized Russian Election Monitor as undesirable in the Russian Federation – Kommersant

The Prosecutor General’s Office supported the appeal of the State Duma commission to investigate the interference of foreign states in internal affairs and recognized the work of the Russian Election Monitor (Germany) as undesirable, said State Duma deputy Vasily Piskarev. The Prosecutor General’s Office has not yet officially announced this.

“The Prosecutor General’s Office supported the commission’s appeal. The German NGO “Russian Election Monitor” (REM) was formed by a group of Polish, French and German Russophobic politicians calling on their governments to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine and closely associated with the OSCE, PACE, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, undesirable in Russia, and other unfriendly ours. organizations in the country,” Vasily Piskarev is quoted as saying in Telegram– channel of the Duma commission.

According to the deputy, REM “came to the attention of the commission” during the previous election campaigns in connection with “discrediting the Russian electoral system.” “The destructive activity of the organization has been recorded even now,” said Vasily Piskarev.

The commission, according to Vasily Piskarev, considered that REM information platforms are being used to prepare foreign audiences to recognize the presidential elections in Russia as illegitimate. To achieve this goal, the organization “works closely with relocants, relays materials from foreign agents, unwanted and extremist organizations, and also spreads fake news about the SVO,” he noted.

That REM in Russia should be declared an “undesirable” organization Vasily Piskarev stated back in September 2022. Then he said that he sent a corresponding appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The REM website states that this organization was created by an initiative group consisting of European scientists, former and current politicians and government officials. Russian Election Monitor calls its goal “to provide an international audience with expert analysis of electoral events in Russia.” The founder of Russian Election Monitor is human rights activist Werner Schulz, who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. In November 2022, Mr. Schultz passed away.