On Friday 27 March, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, rejected, on behalf of the EU, the Russian authorities’ decision to include the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) in their list of ‘undesirable organisations’.
The High Representative’s statement mirrors almost word for word that of his spokesperson on 16 March, who called on the Russian authorities to reconsider their legislation on ‘undesirable organisations’...