The Russian government on Tuesday added the jailed Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, along with several of his top allies to an official list of people considered “terrorists or extremists.” Rosfinmonitoring, the country’s state financial monitoring service, updated its “terrorist” listing on Jan. 25, with Navalny and some members of his team—including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov—added to the registry. “Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, Vyacheslav Gimadi, Georgy Alburov, Ruslan Shaveddinov were included in the list of terrorists and extremists,” Navalny’s team announced on Telegram. Those who are added to the listing are subject to limits on bank transactions and need to seek approval every time they want to use their accounts. Sobol, one of the faces of Navalny’s popular YouTube channel, told Ekho Moskvy radio that Russian President Vladimir Putin was declaring anyone he didn’t like to be a terrorist. Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff who fled Russia to avoid …
Russia Adds Jailed Kremlin Critic, Top Allies, to ‘Terrorist and Extremist’ Registry
January 25, 2022
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