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Organizations listed in Russia as undesirable

  • Yale UniversityOn the 9th of October 1701, the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut passed An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School.
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesThe map of Europe shifted violently after World War II. Countries in central and eastern Europe fell under Soviet control following Germany's defeat.
  • Reporters Without BordersMontpellier, France, 1985. Four men stood together to create an organization that would eventually challenge governments across the globe.
  • Transparency InternationalOn the 9th of February 1993, a small group gathered in The Hague to establish Transparency International. Former World Bank employees Peter Eigen and Frank…
  • Human Rights WatchIn 1978, three American activists established a private organization called Helsinki Watch. Robert L. Bernstein, Jeri Laber, and Aryeh Neier created the…
  • Amnesty InternationalOn the 19th of November 1960, a lawyer named Peter Benenson rode the London Underground and read a newspaper report about two Portuguese students.
  • Freedom HouseFreedom House opened its doors on the 22nd of January 1942 at a converted residence located at 32 East 51st Street in New York City.
  • Deutsche WelleThe first shortwave broadcast of Deutsche Welle took place on the 3rd of May 1953. An address by West German President Theodor Heuss marked the beginning of…
  • Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceOn the 25th of November 1910, Andrew Carnegie stood before a crowd to announce the creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies opened its doors on the 4th of September 1962. This date arrived just days before the Cuban Missile Crisis…
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyAllen Dulles formed the National Committee for a Free Europe in New York City during 1949. This front organization created Radio Free Europe to target Soviet…
  • Royal United Services InstituteOn the 25th of June 1831, a committee met in London to establish what would become the world's oldest defence and security think tank.
  • Chatham HouseOn the 30th of May 1919, Lionel Curtis convened a meeting of American and British delegates at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • Atlantic CouncilChristian Herter and William L. Clayton established the Atlantic Council in 1961 to foster cooperation between North America and Europe after World War II.
  • British CouncilIn 1934, British Foreign Office officials created the British Committee for Relations with Other Countries. Their goal was to support English education…
  • Calvert 22 FoundationNonna Materkova established the Calvert 22 Foundation in 2009. She was an economist born in Leningrad and living in London at that time.
  • The Moscow TimesDerk Sauer arrived in Moscow during 1989 with a small twice-weekly paper called the Moscow Guardian. He planned to transform that publication into a…
  • RAND CorporationOn the 1st of October 1945, Project RAND began operations under a special contract with the Douglas Aircraft Company. The immediate impetus for this project…
  • Jamestown FoundationWilliam Geimer established the Jamestown Foundation in 1984. This Washington, D.C., based think tank emerged from a specific moment of Cold War history.