Alexei Navalny: Russia adds opposition leader to list of 'terrorists and extremists'
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been added to an official list of "terrorists and extremists" by Moscow.
Navalny -- who has been imprisoned for more than a year -- was included in the latest registry alongside some of his allies on Tuesday.
The decision by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service means his bank accounts will be frozen under Russian law. The Taliban and the so-called Islamic State are among those on the list.
It is the latest move in a months-long crackdown on Russia's opposition, as well as independent media and human rights activists.
Eight of Navalny's top aides — including Georgy Alburov and exiled Lyubov Sobol — were also added to the registry. Two other allies of the Kremlin critic had already been added to the list earlier this month.
"I'm proud to work in our fine team of 'extremists and terrorists'," Navalny's chief of staff Leonid Volkov said on Facebook.
"By devaluing the meaning of words and turning their meaning inside out, the Kremlin is digging a deeper hole for itself. It's doing all it can to make those who still believe Putin stop believing him."
Navalny was arrested upon arrival from Germany in January 2021, after he had spent five months recovering from a poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian authorities have denied any involvement.
He was ordered to serve two-and-a-half years in prison for violating the terms of a suspended sentence stemming from a 2014 fraud conviction. Navalny says the charges are political.
His arrest triggered a wave of unprecedented protests across Russian cities and a subsequent crackdown by Moscow.
Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption was outlawed as "extremist" last April and their operations were halted. Dozens of human rights
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