NEWSWATCH: “Russia Makes U-Turn After Evicting Amnesty From Moscow Office” – Reuters
… Amnesty International can return to the Moscow office it was evicted from this week, a Kremlin human rights adviser said on Thursday …. Amnesty has been a vocal critic of Russia over its bombing campaign in Syria and had said it believed the eviction might be part of an official crackdown on civil society groups. … Kremlin officials have accused some foreign-backed civil society groups of working on behalf of Western governments to foment unrest and replicate the revolutions that forced out pro-Russian leaders in several former Soviet states. … some non-governmental organisations have been designated as “foreign agents”, which makes them subject to intense scrutiny.