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两个组织在全球范围内推行开、府的问责制、传媒自由，些本该是俄罗斯所推崇压的原则。

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。