The woman, named as Ludmila Kozlovska, has been “accused of … hybrid warfare between Russia and the Occident,” the en.publika.md website has reported, citing a document that it said was recently presented in the European Parliament.
According to the website, Kozlovska, who heads the Open Dialog Foundation, an NGO registered in Poland, has been expelled from Poland and the European Union after her name was added to the Schengen Information System, a key EU travel and crime database. She faced “immediate deportation,” en.publika.md reported.
The website alleged that Kozlovska worked for “Russian services” to aid the Kremlin’s “war against Europe.”
At the same time, Kozlovska’s brother, who bankrolls the Open Dialog Foundation, according to the website, is the owner of a company headquartered in the Black Sea port of Odessa that supplies “tools” to the Russian naval fleet, en.publika.md said.
It added that the Open Dialog Foundation was known for its “aggressive” lobbying in European institutions “against the main enemies of Russia in Eastern Europe, Poland and Ukraine.”
According to en.publika.md, Kozlovska’s NGO was also lobbying for the opposition in Moldova.
According to Poland’s wpolityce.pl website, the Open Dialog Foundation “drew up a 16-point plan to overthrow the Polish government” last summer.
wpolityce.pl in December said it had seen “the Russian passports” of some of the people who were the foundation’s biggest donors from 2012 to 2014.
Earlier last year, Poland’s public broadcaster TVP reported that the Open Dialog Foundation—which said it sought to protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the post-Soviet region—had received funding from Russian businesses.
TVP cited commentators as saying that Russian security services may have been involved in supporting the foundation.
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Source: en.publika.md, wpolityce.pl, TVP