Non-Profit Partnerships Have Legal Right to Exist

Submitted by Elena Golubeva on 19 May, 2010 - 21:02

In April 2010, the Oktyabrsky district court of Saint-Petersburg made two decisions in favor of two non-profit partnerships, the Regional Press Institute and the Institute for Information Freedom Development (IIFD), and declared unlawful the cautions in their address from the regional head department of the Ministry of Justice.

Both decisions may be called unique: up to now, NGOs regularly lost court cases against the Ministry or its territorial departments. Any caution against a NGO, especially a non-profit partnership, could misbalance its functionality for quite a long time and often resulted in the NGO liquidation.
Ivan Pavlov, the IIFD Board Chair and a legal attorney for both partnerships in these cases, comments: “This is an important precedent; now, the Ministry of Justice should correct its policies concerning NGO inspections”.
As for the regional department of the Ministry, they plan to file cassation appeals to the St.-Petersburg City Court.

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Submitted by Anonymous on 19 May, 2010 - 21:41.
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Can I recieve the decision in english?

Submitted by Elena Golubeva on 21 May, 2010 - 14:24.
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Unfortunately, we don’t have the court decision in english. But you can ask your questions to Michael Goecken (mgoecken@svobodainfo.org) who can answer for all the details of the case.

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