Throughout the world the IRI and MDIF promote openness, accountability in government, and media freedom, principles Russia should seek to promote, not to suppress.

IRI和MDIF这两个组织在全球范围内推行开放性、政府的问责制、传媒自由，而这些本该是俄罗斯所推崇而非打压的原则。

At the end of August, Russian authorities banned the U.S.-based International Republican Institute, or IRI, and the Media Development Investment Fund, or MDIF, from operating in Russia.

8月末，俄当局禁止了国际共和研究所（IRI）、媒体发展投资基金（MDIF）在俄境内运营。