Danish business authority reports Russian organisations to police
The Danish Business Authority (Erhvervsstyrelsen) has reported two government-controlled Russian organisations in Denmark to the police.
The Business Authority suspects the two organisations of skirting EU sanctions, it confirmed to newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The two organisations, which operate in Denmark, have had their assets frozen in the Nordic country.
The Business Authority told Jyllands-Posten that it had undertaken investigations following reporting by the newspaper on the Russian organisations.
Both organisations – Rossotrudnichestvo and Russkiy Mir – are on the EU’s sanctions list.
The EU and experts say that Rossotrudnichestvo is part of Russia’s “soft power” apparatus and part of Moscow’s information war against the West. The organisation has offices in 79 countries.
“This organisation plays a quite special role as the extended arm of the Kremlin and is very visible in several EU countries where in can act to undermine,” senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Flemming Splidsboel, has previously told Jyllands-Posten.
Rossotrudnichestvo is part of the Russian interior ministry and its Danish office is based out of the country's Copenhagen embassy. Its official purpose is related to cultural, educational and social activities.
In its justifications for sanctions against the organisation, the EU states that it “funds various public diplomacy and propaganda projects, consolidating the activities of pro-Russian players and disseminating the Kremlin’s narratives, including historical revisionism”.
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The Business Authority suspects the two organisations of skirting EU sanctions, it confirmed to newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The two organisations, which operate in Denmark, have had their assets frozen in the Nordic country.
The Business Authority told Jyllands-Posten that it had undertaken investigations following reporting by the newspaper on the Russian organisations.
Both organisations – Rossotrudnichestvo and Russkiy Mir – are on the EU’s sanctions list.
The EU and experts say that Rossotrudnichestvo is part of Russia’s “soft power” apparatus and part of Moscow’s information war against the West. The organisation has offices in 79 countries.
“This organisation plays a quite special role as the extended arm of the Kremlin and is very visible in several EU countries where in can act to undermine,” senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Flemming Splidsboel, has previously told Jyllands-Posten.
Rossotrudnichestvo is part of the Russian interior ministry and its Danish office is based out of the country's Copenhagen embassy. Its official purpose is related to cultural, educational and social activities.
In its justifications for sanctions against the organisation, the EU states that it “funds various public diplomacy and propaganda projects, consolidating the activities of pro-Russian players and disseminating the Kremlin’s narratives, including historical revisionism”.
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