[southernplaces7]

Smear content you say? Because it describes well-known aspects of the pervasive corruption in Putin's Russia? And your use of the word "destabilize" is interesting too. It's a favorite label of dictators, authoritarian fans, sock puppets and ideological cheerleaders, usually applied when dissidents try to expose grotesque corruption in shitty government. To them, destabilizing their gravy train of power is a terrible thing, of course.

Whatever their defects, NGOs aren't automatically the tools of western imperialism or whatever idiocy you seem to be promoting about conspiracies against the kleptocratic Russian state. As for Khodorovsky, regardless of his sins, the way in which he was legally treated inside Russia for years was a shameful demonstration of how the Russian state works against basic legal principles.

And yes, many foreign organizations regularly, openly work against the U.S. through NGOs and other organizations with much less danger to themselves than faced by people working against the Russian state. At least within the U.S. one can openly criticize its government without usually being in danger of a prison sentence or state murder.

(though to be fair, the slow creep towards authoritarian behavior by a growing number of governments even in the west is something to really worry about. Cheerleaders of things like blanket TikTok bans and "fighting disinformation" without very seriously qualifying such things should take note of the hole they're digging for the future of free expression.)

[bitsinthesky]

Imagine your country was so fragile an ngo focusing on climate change or human rights could destabilize it.