The Team 29 is an informal association of lawyers and journalists aimed to counteract growing governmental closeness in Russia. The Team works since February 2015. Its leader is Ivan Pavlov, legal attorney. Most of the Team 29 members are ex-employees of the Freedom of Information Foundation, a NGO that worked in the field of FOI promotion and defense in Russia since 2004 and was in 2014 included in the list of "foreign agent" NGOs. Working now without a legal entity in Russia, the Foundation team has managed to continue their work despite of governmental pressure over independent civic initiatives.