Whose interests are protected by Council for human rights under the president of the Russian Federation?

This council “is formed for rendering assistance to the head of state in realization of his constitutional powers in the field of providing and protection of the rights and freedoms of the person and the citizen, informing of the President of the Russian Federation on a situation in this area, assistance to development of institutes of civil society...” In practice at first there was very disputable project on “de-Stalinization” of Russia and now the council decided to stand up for the non-profit organizations financed from foreign sources.

Let's remind that quite recently the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the Federal law No.121-Federal Law “About Foreign Agents” which has received wide popularity. According to it all non-profit organizations receiving financing from foreign sources, are obliged to be registered as foreign agents. Similar laws act in all developed countries. And the Russian law is most congenial to the similar law of the USA which started working still in … 1938!

And here began … It would seem, what is here such? Be registered and protect the interests of the grantors as many as you want … But it is not so: human rights activists began to claim hysterically that they are not “foreign agents”, but irreconcilable fighters for happiness of the Russian people, such ideological disinterested persons to whom the foreign grants are necessary not to starve to death only. However, the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sounded the figure which obviously will suffice much to get bread and water– 1 billion dollars …

Mass checks of the Russian non-profit organizations began on March 21. More than 90 organizations underwent, among which “Agora”, Amnesty International, “Memorial”, “Public verdict”, “Civil assistance”, the Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch and Transparency International. Totally, as was reported in Ministry of Justice, 7,37 thousand checks of non-profit organizations are planned for 2013.

There is an impression that some forces in the Russian society, receiving financing from abroad simply privatized the concept “human rights” of Russia and for foreign grants.

And here already the Council for human rights under the president of the Russian Federation stood up for non-profit organizations: members of the Council for human rights were disturbed extremely by the mass inspections of the non-profit organizations which have begun at the end of March and are made by the State Office of Public Prosecutor.

As the Vzglyad newspaper reports, mass checks of non-profit organizations began at the end of March because of the scandalous law on foreign agents according to which the organizations receiving financing from abroad can be exposed to careful checks. According to the head of human rights association “Agora” Pavel Chikov, at present the prosecutor's office checked more than 200 organizations from 50 regions of the country. These audits caused a panic among public figures who apprehended the actions of the authorities as attempt of pressure upon non-profit organizations.

The member of the Council for human rights Sergey Krivenko insists that the State Office of Public Prosecutor has to prove the carrying out of checks.

- In the law, regulating the actions of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, there is an instruction that audit has to have reasonable character and be based either on a denunciation or on the statement or on any suspicions. However during mass checks it wasn't offered any explanation, told Krivenko.

He reminded that in recent years there were no cases of initiation of criminal cases against the heads of non-profit organizations for extremism or espionage. So Krivenko doesn’t see obvious reason for checks of the organizations over all country and considers the events as “political order”.

The executive director of Golos Association Lilia Shibanova emphasizes that the actions of the prosecutor's office concerning the non-profit organizations violates the law requirements.

-These checks are illegal. The prosecutor's office can check only the state structures without the prevention. The mass character of checks and how they are carried out frighten. It is the mass discrimination of those non-profit organizations which receive foreign financing, she considers.

The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva doubts that the State Office of Public Prosecutor will listen to opinion of human rights activists and will satisfy their requests.

-It is the offer to work under the law. However our authorities often are the offenders and so it is difficult to predict, whether it will be possible to return activity of the State Office of Public Prosecutor to a legislation framework or not, she considers …" (The quote end)

And the State Office of Public Prosecutor has proofs of financing of the Russian non-profit organizations from abroad. It was declared by the official representative of supervising department Marina Gridneva.

In 2011, according to Gridneva, the Russian non-profit organizations received not less than 19 billion roubles from foreign sponsors. And since November 21 of last year when the Law on “foreign agents” came into force, more than 28,3 billion roubles from abroad arrived into accounts of non-profit organizations. These figures were sounded by president Vladimir Putin.

Strange issue turns out … The Council for human rights together with the citizen of the USA Alekseeva spend the precious time for upholding of someone's interests which, to put it mildly, not always coincide with interests of Russia and the Russians. In particular, this council for some reason mysteriously is silent, looking at that lawlessness which is created in education. In the same way its broad public reaction is unknown to universal closing of policlinics, medical assistant's points and maternity hospitals in the Russian remote place because of what parturient women are compelled to reach for 200 kilometres on the broken roads to execute a wish of the president of the Russian Federation - to improve a demographic situation.

Annually about 30 thousand people perish on roads and about 100 thousand murders are committed in the Russian Federation. Here are the problems where the council could show itself … But no, it is probably better for it to be engaged in protection of non-profit organizations which de jure work in Russia as foreign agents and without wishing to carry out the Russian laws, refuse to be registered.

Something probably isn't fine in “Danish kingdom”, that is in the council on human rights under the president of the Russian Federation … It is necessary to be closer to people.