Foreign Agents Laws Comparison: Case Study of USA and RF

Vol.25,No.4(2017)

Abstract
This paper deals with the so-called „foreign agents” law in the Russian Federation. The law is compared with US law called FARA by the „the most different“ comparative approach. An output emphasizes a diametral difference between laws in a practice when the Russian law is used for subjects stigmatization, political pressure and retaliation.

Keywords:
FARA; Foreign Agent; Comparison; Law; USA; Russia.

Pages:
643–659
Author biographies

Miroslava Pavlíková

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Ph.D. student

Miroslav Mareš

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

profesor
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