Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has added the independent human rights monitor OVD-Info to its list of extremist organizations.
Also added were the museum Perm-36, Revolt Center, and more than 30 “structural subdivisions” of Memorial.
Russia’s Supreme Court designated Memorial an “extremist” organization in April, following a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry. As Mediazona notes, the court formally banned the activities of the “International Public Movement Memorial.” But no such organization actually exists: Memorial is a loose network of dozens of groups that often have no legal ties to one another.
Today’s decision by Rosfinmonitoring is a regulatory consequence of that ruling. Why the authorities have linked OVD-Info, Revolt Center, and the Perm-36 museum to Memorial’s structures remains unclear.
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