Public organizations are in a special situation.
Many don't pay taxes and get around customs. Scientology's well-known creative attitude to taxation may well be an important factor behind the raid. Tax evasion in Russia has reached catastrophic proportions. To put this in perspective, the size of the official economy is now smaller than that of the Netherlands. The black economy by contrast is booming, with vast quantities of dodgy Russian money flowing overseas to tax havens such as the Channel Islands and especially Cyprus.