The Russian Ministry of Justice rescinded the registrations of 15 offices belonging to foreign NGOs and international aid organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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It’s the latest step Russia has taken to undermine the organizations amid its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
The groups were “expelled after they were found to be in breach of the current legislation of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement, per CNN.
The statement did not specify the alleged violations.
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