So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University posted on November 26, 2017 by Victor BrechenmacherBrown University Tagged With: Civil society, CSOs, democracy, foreign agents, Russia, Russia and Eastern EuropeOn Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as 'foreign agents.' The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of …Continue Reading about So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University →