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Russian NGOs and Their Struggle for Legitimacy in the Face of the ‘Foreign Agents’ Law: Surviving in Small Ecologies

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  • Evelyn Moser
  • Anna Skripchenko

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The essay investigates the survival strategies of foreign-funded Russian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the face of the so-called ‘foreign agents’ law of 2012. Conceptualising NGOs as autonomous social systems and drawing on two qualitative case studies of Russian NGOs in the fields of human rights protection, we show how these organisations manage to cope with the state’s withdrawal of legitimacy by creatively handling their diverse environmental dependencies. Through shifting the relative importance of different audiences and generating new sources of legitimacy, they have eventually created and maintained small supportive ecologies within the overall environment of a political regime that does not tolerate them.

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  • Evelyn Moser & Anna Skripchenko, 2018. "Russian NGOs and Their Struggle for Legitimacy in the Face of the ‘Foreign Agents’ Law: Surviving in Small Ecologies," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(4), pages 591-614, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:70:y:2018:i:4:p:591-614
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1444145
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    1. Virginia Navajas-Romero & Lorena Caridad y López del Río & Nuria Ceular-Villamandos, 2020. "Analysis of Wellbeing in Nongovernmental Organizations’ Workplace in a Developed Area Context," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(16), pages 1-21, August.

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