Germany's Konrad Adenauer Foundation recognized as undesirable in Russia - Prosecutor General's Office

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has designated the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany) as an organization whose work is undesirable in Russia, the agency's spokesperson Andrei Ivanov told Interfax on Monday.

"The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has taken a decision to designate the work of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), an international nongovernmental organization, undesirable on Russian territory. It has 111 offices across the world. Its stated goals are to promote democracy, support European unity, young talents, and so on," Ivanov said.

The foundation "spreads material discrediting Russia's leadership, domestic and foreign policies, law enforcement work and judiciary," he said.

"The Konrad Adenauer Foundation's information activities, of an openly provocative nature, are aimed at complicating Russia-West relations, creating conditions for Russia's political and economic isolation on the international stage, [and] increasing the military standoff in the regions where the special military operation is being carried out," Ivanov said.

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation was founded in 1955. It is considered to be close to the German Christian Democratic Union party.