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Putin Hurts a Think Tank by Not Banning It
The Carnegie center accused of falling under the Kremlin's influence is just doing its job.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is nothing if not cunning when it comes to dealing with his adversaries. When he signed a law allowing the government to ban any nongovernmental organization deemed "undesirable," it was clear some foreign NGOs would suffer. What was less obvious -- though, in hindsight, inevitable -- is that organizations would start getting flak in the West for not having the law applied to them.