Brussels, 24/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 24 March, the European Union stated that it expected the Russian government to suspend the practice of branding Russian NGOs as “foreign agents”, and that it expected the Russian government to comply with its international obligations and to apply the relevant international human rights standards.
The previous day the Sakharov Center was fined 300,000 roubles (€4,700) by the Russian legal authorities for not being registered as a...