The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia recognized the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), previously recognized as a foreign agent, as an undesirable organization.
The agency believes that WWF uses environmental activities “to implement projects that form security threats in the economic sphere.”
According to the prosecutor’s office, the fund seeks to “obstruct the implementation of the country’s policy on the industrial development of the Arctic, natural resources in the subarctic territories,” and is also engaged in “developing and legitimizing restrictions that can serve as a basis for transferring the Northern Sea Route towards the US exclusive economic zone.”
The agency claims that the fund has formed a network of “controlled non-profit organizations to collect information about the environment in the context of large industrial complexes”, and also prepares assessments of a “tendentious nature aimed at holding back the economic development” of Russia.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the environmental responsibility rating of Russian companies and other ratings by WWF was formed “tendentiously” and in accordance with “subjective standards”.
In addition, according to the department, the fund provided material and methodological support to organizations included in the register of foreign agents, whose members were held accountable for participating in uncoordinated actions, “which indicates interference in the internal affairs” of Russia.
Source: Rosbalt
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