*[Enwl-eng] [EWNC] EWNC update on inspection conducted on March 27,2013

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*"ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH ON NORTH CAUCASUS"*

*March 29, 2013*

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*Environmental Watch on North Caucasus*

*update on inspection conducted on March 27, 2013*



As a part of the governmental policy, FSB together with the Center for
Combating Extremism and Prosecutor's Office (all local departments)
searched Environmental Watch on North Caucasus. From the very beginning,
controllers violated the law. First, officers, with exception of one woman
from the Prosecutor's Office, did not state their names, did not present
any documents proving their identities or the basis of the examination. No
information on the purpose and the reason of the inspection were given. All
these constitute violation of the federal law "On legal entities and
individual entrepreneur protection during the state and municipal control."


Examiners scrutinized financial documents and documents establishing the
NGO.

Examiners were mostly concerned the EWNC's project on Sochi 2014 Winter
Olympics. Within this project, EWNC will publish "Environmental Impact of
the Preparation to Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Independent Report."
Examiners ‘recommended' not to publish the report as it will ‘damage
Russia.' Andrey Rudomakha responded that the Report will be published
anyway. Consequently, examiners stated using pressuring measures.

They checked whether EWNC has authentic PC programs. Regretting, that all
programs are free for all users, the officer of the Prosecutor's Office
then asked to login into EWNC's email seriously violating the Russian
Constitution. EWNC told examiners that it is illegal and as a response,
Prosecutor's Office officer threatened with a fine (50,000 rubles). As
there is nothing secret in the EWNC email, examiners were allowed to look
it through. They were reading emails for an hour and a half. They did not
find anything interesting. Some examiners were scrutinizing correspondence
from the EWNC's web-site. Others were brainwashing while asking question
such as "are you conducting espionage," ‘why didn't you register as a
foreign agent?' etc.

Altogether, the inspection lasted for three hours. As a result, EWNC is
requested to present all financial documents for the last three years by
next Monday.

We believe it is not the last inspection. Such search/control measures are
misused by the government as tool to suppress NGOs. Thus, only on the
Caucasus region, Southern Regional Resource
Center<http://www.srrccs.ru/readNews.do;jsessionid=811E2D8F6A444E812BBD8A3ED5490065>,
Center for ecological education
‘Aqua'<http://www.kkoovrv.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=827&Itemid=109>,
Krasnodar public organization on tadzhik national culture ‘Mekhri
Somonien', Information Training center ‘Levados' and others were persecuted
the same way as EWNC.



*By EWNC*



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