The latest updates to the Rosfinmonitoring registry included 69 people, including 'Dozhd' journalist** Anna Mongait, blogger Ilya Varlamov, and political scientist Sergey Medvedev. There are no asterisks next to their names, indicating an 'extremist' rationale for the additions.
All three were sentenced in absentia in Russia to imprisonment in cases of spreading military 'fakes'. This article was only last year made a basis for inclusion in the 'terrorists and extremists' registry.
People included in the Rosfinmonitoring registry cannot conduct banking operations — their accounts in Russia are blocked.
In 2024, 3152 people were added to the 'terrorists and extremists' list maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. By the end of last year, there were over 16 thousand people in the registry.
* Recognized in Russia as 'foreign agents'.
** Recognized in Russia as a 'foreign agent' and 'undesirable' organization.