SOVA Center was fined 300 thousand rubles for having failed to voluntarily register itself as a “foreign agent”, before that was done by the Ministry of Justice. Unfortunately, they lost the appeal.

Now they have to pay a considerable sum before mid-July and would be grateful for any help.

SOVA Center for Information and Analysis is a Moscow-based Russian nonprofit organization that was founded in October 2002 by a group of people working for the Panorama Center for Information and Research and the Moscow Helsinki Group.

SOVA Center conducts informational and research work on such topics as nationalism and xenophobia, relations between the churches and the secular society, and political radicalism. We are also interested in the problem of human rights in general and in safeguarding liberal democracy in the Russian Federation. You can read SOVA Center’s reports on its website.

If you would like to help, please use one of the bank accounts below. Please indicate the purpose of your transfer as a Targeted donation for paying the fine.

Account details:
ROO Tsentr SOVA
UniCredit Bank
SWIFT: IMBKRUMM

In USD:
Account 40703840700010865184
Correspondent bank: JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York,
SWIFT Code: CHASUS33

In Euro:
Account 40703978300010865184
Correspondent bank: UniCredit Bank AG,
SWIFT Code: HYVEDEMM