Doctors Without Borders says it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years. The medical aid group cited a Justice Ministry letter saying the group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      You don’t even have to read the article. OP put it right there in the post.

      the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

      Russia was getting ready to outlaw them. It would have been a danger for them to keep personnel in the country, leaving them exposed to being kidnapped and used as currency for prisoner exchanges.

      There’s a chance you’re joking but I know for a fact there are people here who will take this seriously.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    282·
    9 days ago

    Looks like there are some borders!

    Lol jk it makes sense, if I did any kind of business in the area I’d have bailed long ago, I just couldn’t resist the joke.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    Because Russia will kidnap the doctors from western countries and claim they’re spies hoping for a trade off for some of their legitimately war lord and assassin prisoners held in the west

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      My first thought that they would be drafted and sent to the front lines as medics, but that would assuming too much planning and compassion of Russia.

  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    9 days ago

    Is russias medical infrastructure so poor that they need this kind of assistance? I could guess maybe their war is stretching resources so thin. But this says 32 years they’ve been there. That’s like almost as far back as the end of the USSR.

    I wonder if they had been assisting in treating soldiers wounded in this war.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Russia removed them from their list of foreign NGOs. That puts their personnel directly at risk. They didn’t really have much of a choice.