, Germany (AP) - German chancellor Angela merkel and nongovernmental organizations (ngos) a blow her worries, but faced with the problem of Russian President vladimir putin drawing aside to repeat, the government needs to know who are funding.
Vladimir putin met with Angela merkel industrial fair in Hanover, Germany. Bank give prominence to the development of foreign trade, including further business relation, with Germany, Russia's interests, but relations have been tense, recently by the kremlin's harsh response to opposition pressure groups and ngos. Two German think-tank, recently the search one of the target group.
"What is important, at least this is what did I do what is clear is that ngos can work well and free," said ms merkel, openly against Mr Putin's problem, because of attacks by the Russian authorities non-governmental organization earlier this year, the first foreign leader.
"Only is an active civil society development, if the individual organization can work, have no fear and worry," ms merkel said, with vladimir putin said at a news conference, after they visited the fair industry. Principal, he thinks, a strong civil society, improve the economic modernization, adhere to the "social life is always have different opinions."
Russia last year enacted a law requiring all non-governmental organizations to receive money from abroad, the definition of fuzzy political activities, and engaged in the registration for the term "foreign agents" arouse the connotation of the cold war spy.
Leading Russian ngos have said against it. Putin's response to the order of up to 2000 ngos widely all over the country check, to see they comply with the law.
On Monday, he through criticism of Russia's legislation and specific action.
"We're not trying to put under the control of anyone, but we want to know how many money, through what way and what's the purpose, is to send," he said. "Russia has passed a law that everyone will comply with it."
"Our actions are designed to not toward the ban, but exerts control flows from abroad," he said, the ngos in Russia has been nearly $1 billion from abroad and "the public has a right to know where from and for what purpose the money".
The targeted two German think-tank, konrad adenauer foundation, it is with ms merkel's conservative Christian democratic union (cdu), friedrich ebert foundation, and with the opposition social Democrats.
Ms merkel said, their job is "as far as we know, all right." Putin said that Russia has no intention of restricting their work.
Due to the two leaders to visit the fair, some activists from Ukraine FEMEN group, showing their trunk, and chanted "putin dictator!" The guard before being detained.



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