Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organizations should be shut down

Memorial, an international human rights group

Memorial "creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state, whitewashes and rehabilitates Nazi criminals."

Memorial, was declared a "foreign agent" in 2016

Memorial's sister organization, the Memorial Human Rights Center, is up for closure as well, with a court hearing in the Moscow City Court scheduled for Wednesday morning.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/12/28/russian-court-orders-human-rights-group-memorial-shut-down/9032808002/

Memorial Human Rights Center, based in Moscow with member organizations across Russia, is heavily supported by donors such as the [Ford Foundation] and Tacis,

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/foreign-assistance-international-norms-and-ngo-development-lessons-from-the-russian-campaign/381C1E5F9E0AD898A6EAEB28A9139BD6

Human rights group Memorial ‘has signs of foreign agent’ – Russian prosecutors

The inquiry, held after the ‘foreign agents’ law was enacted, revealed that the NGO received $3 million from abroad to shape public opinion in Russia.

In particular, it was discovered that the NGO received “over 52 million rubles ($1.6 million) in 2010 from foreign citizens and organizations,” he explained. In 2011, Memorial got “over 40 million rubles ($1.2 million), including from the [Ford Foundation],” as well as other companies registered in the US, the law enforcer added, according to Itar-Tass.

24 May, 2013

https://www.rt.com/russia/memorial-foreign-agent-court-749/