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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 operates as a nonprofit out of Washington, D.C. For more than eight decades, it has weighed in on democracy, political freedom, and human…
  • 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 PeaceThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was born on Andrew Carnegie's seventy-fifth birthday. On the 25th of November 1910, the Scottish-American…
  • Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies opened its doors on the 4th of September 1962, just weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis gripped…
  • 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 InstituteThe Royal United Services Institute has been asking hard questions about war and peace since 1831, making it the oldest defence and security think tank in…
  • 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 CouncilThe Atlantic Council began with a handshake between two former American statesmen. Christian Herter, once Secretary of State, and William L.
  • British CouncilThe British Council operates in over 100 countries, touching the lives of students, teachers, and artists from Bucharest to Kabul to North Korea.
  • Calvert 22 FoundationCalvert 22 Foundation took its name from a street in Shoreditch, East London, an address with deep roots in Eastern European immigration.
  • 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 FoundationThe Jamestown Foundation was born from a single defection. In 1978, Arkady Shevchenko walked away from his post as Under-Secretary-General of the United…