The West imposes ideas of separatism with the help of controlled NGOs – Kommersant

Representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office Tatyana Lazareva said that on the eve of the elections, unfriendly states are trying to impose on citizens the idea of ​​“ethnic disunity” and create “the ground for interethnic conflicts.” According to her, they do this with the help of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). As an example, Ms. Lazareva cited the Free Buryatia Foundation (recognized as undesirable), which “under the guise of educational activities, attempted to promote separatist ideas among the residents of Buryatia.”

“Similar ideas were promoted by the Ukrainian organization “Free Idel.Ural”, the Japanese “Union of Struggle for the Return of the Northern Territories” (both NGOs were recognized as undesirable – ”b”) and others. A number of foreign structures are focused exclusively on the Crimean topic,” said Tatyana Lazareva at a meeting of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty (quote from Interfax).

According to her, the number of NGOs recognized as undesirable in 2023 increased – in 2022, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized 23 organizations as such, and the following year – already 58. Ms. Lazareva believes that such figures “speak of increased Western pressure on Russia through controlled structures, especially in connection with the upcoming presidential elections in Russia.”

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Justice Oleg Sviridenko, speaking at the same meeting, statedthat foreign agents are also trying to have a negative impact on the non-presidential elections. According to him, as part of the presidential campaign, they create information content “containing value judgments regarding the ongoing presidential election campaign.”

Today, February 8, the Central Election Commission refused to register as a candidate Sergei Malinkovich (“Communists of Russia”), Boris Nadezhdin (“Civil Initiative”), self-nominated bloggers Anatoly Batashev and the Russian Rada. According to the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, there will be four candidates on the ballot for the presidential election – State Duma Vice Speaker Vladislav Davankov (“New People”), the current head of state Vladimir Putin (self-nominated), and head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky (LDPR) and the head of the State Duma Committee for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation).

What violations did the Central Election Commission find in the documents of two presidential candidates – in the Kommersant publication “The signatures did not come out in handwriting”.