TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-Soviet Civil Society Development in the Russian Federation
T2 - The Impact of the NGO Law
AU - Crotty, Jo
AU - Hall, Sarah Marie
AU - Ljubownikow, Sergej
N1 - Funding Information:
We also acknowledge the contribution of Dr Peter Rodgers at Sheffield Management School. The UK Economic and Social Research Council Grant RES-061-25-0002-A funded this research.
Funding Information:
In addition, GRO and TNGO participants also reflected on and confirmed widespread perceptions about the geographical distribution of state-sponsored grant funding (Schaaf et al. 2009), summing it up respectively: ‘We are sure that all these awards are distributed in Moscow. Sly people deal with it there. And we cannot beat them’ (Interview 1.8); ‘ ... the purpose of this law was that the organisations did not receive foreign investments. Only the all-Union and Moscow organisations received state investment’ (Interview 1.15). The uneven geographical distribution of these federal funds therefore further discouraged eNGOs in this study from applying for financial support.
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PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - The passing of the Russian NGO Law in mid-2006 set clear parameters for Russian NGO activity and civil society development. In this paper we assess the impact of the NGO Law on both NGOs and Russian civil society. Our findings illustrate that the NGO Law has led to a reduction in NGO activity and curtailment of civil society development. We conclude that Russian civil society appears to be dominated by groups funded and thus controlled by the state. This has implications for Russia's on-going democratic development.
AB - The passing of the Russian NGO Law in mid-2006 set clear parameters for Russian NGO activity and civil society development. In this paper we assess the impact of the NGO Law on both NGOs and Russian civil society. Our findings illustrate that the NGO Law has led to a reduction in NGO activity and curtailment of civil society development. We conclude that Russian civil society appears to be dominated by groups funded and thus controlled by the state. This has implications for Russia's on-going democratic development.
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U2 - 10.1080/09668136.2014.941697
DO - 10.1080/09668136.2014.941697
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84907224756
SN - 0966-8136
VL - 66
SP - 1253
EP - 1269
JO - Europe - Asia Studies
JF - Europe - Asia Studies
IS - 8
ER -