NY Times: MacArthur Foundation to Close Offices in Russia
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
The MacArthur Foundation is closing its offices in Russia after more than 20 years of grant-making here, becoming the latest casualty of new restrictions meant to limit the influence of foreign organizations in Russia.
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Big bad Vlad strikes again! After 20 years of making grants to Russian subversives, er, "human rights" groups, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of PBS funding fame is no longer welcome in Russia. Under a law, signed by Putin two months ago, "undesirable" foreign entities can be restricted or expelled. The MacArthur Foundation has just been fingered -- and Sulzberger's Slimes doesn't like it; not one bit!
The felonious foundation, based in Chicago, has awarded $173 million in grants in Russia since 1992. The grants financed activities related to "higher education" (brainwashing of Russian students), "human rights" (funding for anti-Putin agitators) and limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons (de-clawing and de-fanging of the Russian Bear).
The MacArthur Group (and others) fund PBS's Charlatan Rose Show. The greasy globalist ghoul then invites vile Putin-haters like anti-family lesbian Masha Gessen, Yelstin-era crime boss Mikhail Khordokovksy, and the Anarchist anti-Christian Pussy Riot skanks to come on his show and trash Russia.
In response to accusations of subversion, the mendacious Marxists of MacArthur moaned: