List of organisations banned in Russia

This is a partial list of organizations that are officially banned in Russia as "extremist" or declared undesirable. Many organizations were banned based on the Russian foreign agent law and Russian undesirable organizations law. Among them were Open Russia, National Endowment for Democracy, Open Society Foundations, U.S. Russia Foundation, International Republican Institute, Media Development Investment Fund and National Democratic Institute.[1]

Banned organisations

Before 2014

Organization Date where it was banned
Communist Party of the Soviet Union 6 November 1991
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 6 November 1991
National Salvation Front 4 October 1993
Hizb ut-Tahrir 2003
National Bolshevik Party 19 April 2007
Conceptual Party "Unity" 13 July 2007
National Socialist Society 1 February 2010
Slavic Union 27 April 2010
United Vilayat of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachay 9 July 2010
Takfir wal-Hijra 15 September 2010
Format18 20 December 2010
Russian National Unity 24 December 2010
Russian all-national union 30 May 2011
Movement Against Illegal Immigration 18 April 2011
People's Will Army 22 February 2011
Northern Brotherhood 6 August 2012

Since 2014

Organization Date where it was banned
International Republican Institute Unknown
National Democratic Institute Unknown
People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky 18 February 2015
For Responsible Government 22 September 2015
Russians 28 October 2015
National Endowment for Democracy July 2015
U.S. Russia Foundation 2015
Media Development Investment Fund 2016
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People 26 April 2016
Open Russia 2017
Jehovah's Witnesses 20 April 2017
Free Russia Forum 22 February 2019
Union of Slavic Forces of Russia 19 August 2019
Nation and Freedom Committee 29 July 2020
National Socialism / White Power 21 May 2021
Anti-Corruption Foundation 9 June 2021
Male State 18 October 2021
Meta Platforms Inc 21 March 2022[2]
All-Tatar Public Center 10 June 2022
Adat People's Movement 11 July 2022
People's Self-Defense (Russia) 15 September 2022
International LGBT movement 30 November 2023

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Russian authorities ban Khodorkovsky’s organization Open Russia as ‘undesirable’ by Amnesty International
  2. ^ "Список организаций, признанных российскими судами э… / СОВА". www.sova-center.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-07-15.

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