GONGO

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GONGO stands for Government-operated Non-governmental organization, which may have been set up by governments to look like NGOs in order to qualify for outside aid. Often, GONGOs are set up by undemocratic governments to create confusion when NGOs who seek to promote democracy in the question in country. Russia, for example, has set up supposedly independent NGOs to confuse voters during elections.

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