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Organizations listed in Russia as undesirable

  • Yale UniversityIn 1779, British forces occupying New Haven threatened to raze Yale. A Yale graduate intervened.
  • Stanford UniversityStanford University began as a memorial to a grieving family's only child. Leland Stanford built it after his son died.
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesA scholarly society began in 1948 as a legal fiction so a journal could print in New York. It is now called ASEEES.
  • University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley scientists used a particle accelerator to discover more chemical elements than any other university.
  • Reporters Without BordersReporters Without Borders counts journalists killed each year, betting named deaths are harder to ignore.
  • Transparency InternationalFormer World Bank employees founded Transparency International in The Hague in 1993.
  • Human Rights WatchIn 2020, Human Rights Watch returned a $470,000 donation that barred LGBT advocacy.
  • Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International began with a 1961 newspaper article by lawyer Peter Benenson.
  • Freedom HouseFreedom House began in 1941 as a group of campaigns urging America to enter World War II.
  • Deutsche WelleRussia shut down Deutsche Welle's Moscow bureau on the 3rd of February 2022. DW then moved its Moscow work to Riga.
  • Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace began as a $10 million birthday gift.
  • Center for Strategic and International StudiesIn 1986, Georgetown University cut every tie with the think tank it had chartered.
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyIn 1958, Soviet leaders admitted jamming Radio Free Europe cost more than all their own broadcasting.
  • Royal United Services InstituteThe Duke of Wellington wrote a letter in 1831 that started a think tank. It still sits in Whitehall, London.
  • Chatham HouseThe Chatham House Rule lets you share what was said but not who said it. It allows frank talk on unpopular issues.
  • Atlantic CouncilThe Atlantic Council began in 1961 with a handshake between two former American statesmen.
  • British CouncilThe British Council began in 1934 as a defense against communism and fascism.
  • Calvert 22 FoundationRussia later called London's Calvert 22 Foundation an "undesirable organisation".
  • The Moscow TimesIn 1993, Russian writers silenced by censors turned to The Moscow Times.
  • RAND CorporationIn 1946, the RAND Corporation proposed a satellite for photographing from space, years before Sputnik.
  • Jamestown FoundationIn 1978, a top Soviet official at the United Nations defected to the West. His case led to the Jamestown Foundation.

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