The educational space Frame in Tbilisi has been added to the list of undesirable organizations.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia recognized the educational space Frame, which operates in Georgia, as an undesirable organization. The decision to include it in the register was made on September 29, but this was not reported.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in February, the Georgian police did not allow a rally in memory of Alexei Navalny to be held at the Pushkin monument in Freedom Square in Tbilisi. The organizers of the event, activists from Frame, announced the cancellation of the rally in memory of Navalny.

The register of "undesirable organizations added the educational space Frame in Tbilisi. The relevant entry in the register, published on the Ministry of Justice's website, was noted by the publication "Mediazona"**.

The venue was opened in March 2022, shortly after the start of the special military operation, by the authors of the eponymous project on informal education from St. Petersburg who moved to Tbilisi. They regularly held lectures, board game evenings, film screenings, meetings, and other events for civil activists and other emigrants from Russia, such as a school on investigative journalism and a summer tent camp called "Territory of Freedom".

In February, the Tbilisi Frame and its coordinator Maxim Ivantsov** were included in the register of "foreign agents" by the Ministry of Justice. Representatives of the venue later told the Georgian publication Paper Kartuli that they would continue their work but would stop publishing photos of event participants and would remove some names from announcements at people's requests. "We studied the law and judicial practice and realized that there had not been a single case of punishment for participating in the events of foreign agents. But some people are still afraid," they said.

By 21:00 Moscow time, representatives of the educational space Frame had not commented on the inclusion of the venue in the list of "undesirable organizations" on their social media pages.

* The FBK is included in the register of foreign agents, recognized as extremist, and banned in Russia. The founder of the fund, Alexei Navalny, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists by Rosfinmonitoring and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for extremism; he died in prison in February 2024. Navalny is recognized as a "prisoner of conscience". The material from "Caucasian Knot" "Navalny: the Caucasian dimension" outlines the opposition figure's views on issues related to the Caucasus.

** included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of Russia.

*** the activities of the company Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia.