"The United States has passed a law according to which the United States has announced that it will support certain political organizations in Russia," Putin said.
At the same time, according to the Russian leader, the United States declared Russia an enemy, publicly said that it would restrain its development.
“The question is: what kind of political organizations the United States and other members of the Western community should support in Russia, if they also pay them?
It is clear that, just like the Americans in the 1930s, we declared them to be foreign agents, but work is not prohibited, they can work.
The announcement of a foreign agent does not stop activity, ”Putin said.
He added that "if the organization is extremist, then that's a different story."
“And that organization (FBK. -
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), which you mentioned, publicly called for riots, publicly involved, which is illegal, in street events of minors, it is prohibited by Russian law.
And they publicly gave instructions on how to prepare, for example, Molotov cocktails in order to use them against law enforcement agencies, flaunting the police identification data, "Putin stressed.
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The Anti-Corruption Foundation is included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019;
the organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Moscow City Court of 06/09/2021