Changing the landscape of non-profit organizations as a response to socio-political challenges

10.54398/1818510Х_2024_1_111

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The relevance of the proposed topic is determined by the fact that in the activities of Russian non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the last 10 years there have been serious changes associated with the transformation of the socio-economic and political situation in the country and in the world. Therefore, the aim of the work was to study the changes in the landscape of non-profit organizations that occurred after the adoption of the law on foreign agents, the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection and the beginning of a special military operation. The sources of the research were the updated legislative base in the field of non-profit organizations (from 2012 to the present), publications by leading scientists, and the results of the Pulse of NGOs survey conducted by the Center for Evaluation of Public Initiatives of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. The following research methods were chosen as the leading ones: analysis of literature and sources, comparative analysis, comparative institutional analysis, system analysis. Because of the conducted research, it was concluded that in recent years Russian non-profit organizations have faced a number of “challenges” of various kinds. All this influenced the activities of these organizations and their structure, led to a significant reduction and curtailment of some types of interaction with the population, but the emergence of new types of activities. In conditions of increasing threats to the national security of the country, the state seeks to divide non-profit organizations into “friendly” and “unfriendly” ones. It tries to label the “unfriendly” as foreign agents and support the “friendly” ones with grants, offering those forms of active cooperation. The transformation of the social landscape, the orientation and aspirations of non-profit organizations in a period of turbulence is inevitable, while often the vectors of movement of former colleagues are multidirectional. However, as practice and research conducted by non-profit organizations show, in response to new requests, and because of the revision of previous activities, non-profit organizations are ready for changes.

Keywords

• non-profit organizations
• socio-political challenges
• state
• economy
• political science
• third sector
• socio-political situation
• law on foreign agents
• COVID-19 pandemic
• special military operation
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