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Organizations listed in Russia as undesirable

  • Yale UniversityYale University was founded in 1701, making it the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It began not as a grand campus but as a…
  • Stanford UniversityStanford University sits on 8,180 acres of the San Francisco Peninsula, and it was born from grief. Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate who served as…
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesThe Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies began not with a grand founding ceremony, but with a legal fiction.
  • University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley opened its doors in Oakland in 1869 with ten faculty members and forty male students.
  • Reporters Without BordersReporters Without Borders keeps a yearly count of journalists killed on the job. That single practice captures something essential about the organisation: it…
  • Transparency InternationalTransparency International was founded on the 9th of February 1993, in The Hague, Netherlands, by a group of former World Bank employees who believed…
  • Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch began not as a global organization but as a single watchdog group with a single, specific mandate: hold the Soviet Union to promises it…
  • Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International began with a single newspaper article and a feeling of impotent rage. On the 28th of May 1961, the British newspaper The Observer…
  • 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 WelleDeutsche Welle launched its first shortwave broadcast on the 3rd of May 1953 with an address by West German President Theodor Heuss.
  • 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 LibertyRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was born out of a calculation that the Cold War would ultimately be decided not by armies, but by ideas.
  • 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 HouseChatham House sits at 10 St James's Square in central London, and for more than a century it has been the place where statesmen, economists, and foreign…
  • 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 CorporationThe RAND Corporation was born from a single urgent conversation in September 1945, weeks after the end of World War II. General Henry H.
  • 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.