After the scandal following the labeling of the Russian human rights organizations like Memorial, under the leadership of Oleg Orlov, and Grazhdanskoe Sodeistvie, under the leadership of Svetlana Gannushkina, as “foreign agents,” it was expected that rights groups in the North Caucasus would be the next targets. Nearly 9,300 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are registered by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the North Caucasus. About 3,500 of them are civil organizations, movements and foundations, 2,000 are religious organizations, and the remaining institutions include unions and self-regulating professional organizations. The majority of the NGOs are located in Stavropol region and Dagestan, …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation