Abstract
The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismayed at recent legislation setting up new barriers to this practice. This paper discusses the new laws and restrictive amendments to legislative acts on the operations of foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, adopted since 2011.
Highlights
The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist Eastern European societies is continuously starved by legal frameworks
This paper fills that void by describing the new laws and restrictive legislative acts adopted since 2011 in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and discusses the effects such laws have on the operations of the NGO sector and broader democratization processes in these three post-communist countries
As democratization has travelled East and passed through regime change in the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe, it seems to become more obviously intertwined with external international actors and their involvement in the NGO sector
Summary
Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications.
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