Russia places Navalny’s widow on extremist list
Russia has placed the widow of the late opposition campaigner Aleksei A. Navalny on its official terrorist and extremist list, days after charging her in a Moscow court with “participating in an extremist community", writes the New York Times.
Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian government body assigned to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, added Yulia Navalnaya to the list as an extremist, according to a search on Thursday of its online database.
Inclusion on the list allows the Russian authorities to block bank accounts of the designated individual and restrict other financial activity.
Ms. Navalnaya, who left Russia in 2021, pledged to continue the work of her husband after his death February in a Russian prison colony north of the Arctic Circle. She has accused Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, of the murder of her husband and rallied Western officials to come up with new ways to fight Mr. Putin’s regime.
