07-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com

Russia shuts down second rights group, drawing EU concern

A Moscow court has ruled to dissolve an indigenous peoples' rights group, the second decision of its kind in less than a week that was criticized by European authorities on Thursday.Known as the Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the non-governmental organization was branded a "foreign agent" in 2015 for having received funding from abroad.Rights groups and other organizations designated by the Russian justice ministry as foreign agents, a term that carries a negative Soviet-
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