Czar Vladimir Putin takes stab at foreign charities as National Endowment For Democracy banned | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The National Endowment for Democracy, an American nongovernmental foundation based in Washington, D.C., and “dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world,” is now illegal in Russia. On Tuesday, the office of the prosecutor general released a statement saying that after analyzing the organization’s activities, the decision was made to designate the…