“We call for an end to attacks on civil society in Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted Price as saying during a telephone briefing.
According to him, the United States "condemns the court decision" by which Memorial was liquidated.
On December 28, the Russian Supreme Court decided to liquidate Memorial.
According to the prosecutor, the organization distorts the memory of the Great Patriotic War and creates "a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state."
* The international public organization “International Historical, Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society“ Memorial ”is included in the register of NGOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 04.10.2016.