The World Wide Fund for Nature in Russia said on June 22 it had cut ties with the international nongovernmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature (World Wildlife Fund, WWF), a day after it was deemed an "undesirable organization" by the Prosecutor General's Office. The Russian entity said it also had terminated an agreement on the use of the Panda logo and the acronym WWF. The Prosecutor General's Office said the independent nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental and species protection was "being used as a facade to carry out projects that create threats to the country's security in the economic sphere."
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