Overview
- The ruling bans Anti-Corruption Foundation, Inc. and its structural subdivisions from operating on Russian territory.
- Justice Oleg Nefyodov delivered the decision, a judge noted for expansive extremist designations in previous cases.
- Prosecutors claimed the organizations pursued a “color revolution” scenario to alter the country’s constitutional foundations.
- The U.S.-registered ACF was created in 2022 after the original FBK was branded extremist and liquidated in 2021, then it was added to Russia’s foreign agents list in December 2022.
- ACF condemned the move as political, and Amnesty International warned the label could expose donors and collaborators to severe penalties, with over 100 donation-related cases reported since 2021.