| ID | 160202 |
| Title Proper | Russian NGOs and their struggle for legitimacy in the face of the ‘foreign agents’ law |
| Other Title Information | surviving in small ecologies |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Moser, Evelyn ; Skripchenko, Anna |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 70, No.4; Jun 2018: p.591-614 |
| Journal Source | Europe-Asia Studies Vol: 70 No 4 |
| Key Words | NGOs ; Russia ; Foreign Agents |