(Officials’ powers) are so vaguely formulated, they are so broad, that in effect a bureaucrat, if he wants to … can put our existence under threat.

Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs. … Individual officials will have an...

It gives very wide powers to civil servants, thanks to deliberately vague phrasing.