The list members of chamber (2012 year)

Convocation

2012  

Chair of the Council	The Russian Public Council for international cooperation and public diplomacy
Commission Members	Commission on charity and volunteerism
Member of the inter-commission workgroup	Inter-commission working group on international cooperation and public diplomacy Inter-commission working group on preparation of expert reports of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation on draft normative legal acts Inter-commission working group on promotion of public control system and counteraction to corruption
Commission Members with a consultative vote	Commission on social policy, labour relations and living standards of citizens

• 17 jule, 2013

  HRC will discuss amendments to the law “on foreign agents”

  “As the second variant, we had proposed to delete the concept of a ‘political activity’ from the law but keep ‘interests of foreign sources of financing.”

• 04 june, 2013

  Government might expand the list of grounds for unscheduled inspections of NGOs

  “On the background of broad-scale prosecutors’ inspections, introduction of these amendments to the non-commercial law does not seem timely to me.”

• 30 may, 2013

  Mass media: “Foreign Agent” NGOs will receive Presidential grants if they are registered with the Ministry of Justice

  “If an organization is registered as a legal entity and has been in existence for no less than a year, has property, abides to the law, and pays taxes, it has the right to apply for budget financing.”

• 16 may, 2013

  They have discussed the fate of “foreign agents” at the State Duma

  “Ideologists of these inspections had never understood the major thing: you cannot scare people dealing with human rights, torture and corruption prevention, children and handicapped people support; you can only make their lives more difficult.”

• 10 april, 2013

  The Ministry of Justice intends to expand grounds for unscheduled inspections of NGOs

  “Mending holes in the law (doesn’t matter in whose interests) looks wrong and is not absolutely correct legally, especially in the present situation.”

• 28 march, 2013

  The Foundation of Civil Society Development believes that the majority of NGOs are not engaged in any social projects

  “We shall be looking not at the organizational/legal form, but the content of an organization’s work, its project activities.”

• 30 january, 2013

  NGOs to expect unscheduled audits

  “I guess that for those NGOs which have been in good operation for a long while these amendments will give no reasons to quit.”

• 29 january, 2013

  NGOs will be released from the obligatory audit

  “The proposed amendment to the law will make life of non-commercial organizations, especially regional ones, easier.”

• 05 december, 2012

  December 5: the International Volunteer Day

  “Volunteers take in their hands things which the state has not got down to.”

• 21 november, 2012

  The Law “On NGO Foreign Agents” became operative

  “If an NGO does not agree, it can go to court.  The Ministry of Justice is not going to “witch hunt;” the law was written rather vaguely and the department would not like to be the figurant in various cases and prove presence of political activities.”