The Russian authorities searched the homes of several journalists.
The European Union calls on Moscow to stop crackdown on civil society and independent media.
Brussels - The EU has strongly condemned the recent crackdown by Russian authorities against independent media and civil society organizations.
The fact that dissenting opinions, opposition, critical voices and independent institutions are increasingly being silenced is particularly worrying ahead of the State Duma elections in September, said a spokeswoman for EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell. The European Union calls on the Russian authorities to reverse the decisions and stop crackdown on civil society and independent media.
The declaration specifically mentioned the decisions to classify the think tank ILPP and several journalists as “foreign agents” and to declare the investigative platform “Proekt” to be an “undesirable organization”. In addition, the case of the civil rights and legal group Komanda 29 was mentioned, which, according to the EU, stopped its work as a result of pressure and unjustified allegations. dpa
