The bids for 1.25 billion rubles appropriated for NGOs from the federal budget are accepted starting from today, August 8, 2007.
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NGOs Bid for Budget Money
The bids for 1.25 billion rubles appropriated for Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) by federal budget are accepted starting from today, August 8, 2007. The arrangers explicitly say that the budget funding of NGOs is being improved to move aside the western grant givers that finance opposition movements of right defenders. Of interest is that the opposition is also willing to join the battle for budget funds in an effort to show that it works not only for foreign money.
”The budget has appropriated 1.25 billion rubles for the tender under the state management clause, though NGOs got just 500 million rubles past year,” said Valery Fadeev, director of Public Project Institute. “Against the background of powerful funding of NGOs by the west, including for political purposes, we should set going [the funding of] our own.”
On July 3, President Vladimir Putin inked a ruling on the second tender for budget funding of NGOs. But current competition has two features that make it materially different from the last year’s event. First, the money will be appropriated not to improve some material and technical base of NGOs but to implement socially vital projects. Second, the tender will be held not by the Public Chamber but by the tender operators, i.e. by some NGOs chosen by president.
Under the tender provisions, only Russia’s NGOs that have been properly registered with the Federal Registration Service, worked for at least a year and which activities could be deemed social vital may bid for the grants. Each tender operator will have a tender commission that will consider the bids and choose a winner by October 31.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 08, 2007
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