This paper argues that strict negative concord items (NCIs) are licensed by standard (Downward) Agree. NCIs bear a [uNeg] feature which probes its c-command domain. If no [iNeg] goal is available, an NCI moves to the closest position which enables licensing. By virtue of this NCIs are either base-generated or move outside of the scope of [iNeg] negation. The paper provides evidence for this analysis from Russian with special attention to the fragment answers data. It is proposed that either the polarity mismatch between the ellipsis site and the antecedent or an extra PF-deletion of the negative marker in the ellipsis remnant should be allowed. It is shown that the Agree analysis straightforwardly accounts for ambiguous fragment answers to negative questions which are problematic for the analyses that assume licensing in the scope of covert negation.