Russia’s president, Dimitri Medvedev, is calling for tax incentives and other measures to help the country’s nonprofit sector, which was strictly regulated and scrutinized under the administration of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, says The New York Times.

“Our main goal is to support the authority of nonprofit groups in society and the attraction to this sector of more talented people and philanthropic resources,” Mr. Medvedev said in a meeting Monday with human-rights advocates.

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