Current Affairs People in Need gain the right to work in Russia after two-year ban
This weekend, in an unexpected move, Russia granted People in Need, one of the Czech Republic's biggest NGOs, the right to operate once again on Russian soil. This is after a two-and-a-half year ban from the country, imposed on the grounds that People in Need were, according to the Russian Administration, funding terrorist groups. People in Need's work in Russia has traditionally been in the south of the country, in the breakaway regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia. The organization now plans to take up where it left off, providing training and support for those affected in particular by the Chechen conflict of the 1990s. Simon Panek is the head of People in Need:
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