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April 8, 2013   ·   0 Comments

 18:41 / 05.04.2013 Mc.Faul, US ambasador in Russia
 
 Director General of Foreign Policy Research Institute and initiatives Veronica Krasheninnikov said that a number of U.S. non-profit organizations in Russia are being lead by intelligence officers .

The correspondent REGNUM , Krasheninnikov voiced a list of names of heads of American NGOs on April 4 in Moscow at the round table “Problems and prospects of enhancing the relationship of civil society in Russia and the United States”, which was attended by U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

The ambassador called in response to judge people by their work today.

“You’re talking about the closure of the office for International Development USAID in Moscow.

According to the U.S. Department, one of their main achievements is to improve the situation in the Russian health care.

But look at the biography of the former head office in Moscow, Mr. Charles North, which according to his official biography is a graduate of the National Military Academy, where in 2004 he received a master’s degree in national security strategy, “– said Krasheninnikov.

“Mr. Douglas Minarchik, who was deputy for Europe and Eurasia in the same NGO served 26 years in the Air Force, the United States, was active in 211 combat missions in Vietnam, an instructor in the School of the Air Force Special Operations, Military Adviser to the President of the United States on terrorism and low-intensity conflict, and taught at the school for special operations of anti-guerrilla warfare, “- she said.

According Krasheninnikov, “this is not the very skills and competences that are needed to work in the field of health care.”

“Mr. Barry Lowen Krohn is the MacArthur Foundation’s president  for international programs. Therefore he made the decisions on which grants go to Russia.

Barry Lowen Krohn was special assistant to the director of the CIA, the director of the analytical department of the board of the National exploration, etc.

This qualification is a man who gives grants to Russian organizations “, – underlined Krasheninnikov.

According to her, the MacArthur Foundation gave 750 thousand dollars of the Moscow Helsinki Group and $ 2.5 million Carnegie Moscow Center.

Next Krasheninnikov led a number of similar examples.

The U.S. ambassador said that he had worked with some of the people who head the fund. He called not to judge people by their past and said that also deals with those who have previously served in the KGB. “I judge them by their competence in today’s work” – said McFaul. He named Charles North professional. In respect of his person McFaul also asked to judge the work as a diplomat, not a professor, he was earlier.

Recall: November 21, 2012 in Russia was enacted a law on non-profit organizations involved in politics and receive foreign funding. The document gives them the status of foreign agents. As such, they must register with the Ministry of Justice and properly tag all of their publications. Similar rules apply in the U.S. since the 1930th, and some European countries.

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