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Worldpublico13d ago

Russia Adds 14-Year-Old to 'Terrorist and Extremist' Registry After Rail Incident

Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has added Viktor Kalinin, a 14-year-old from St. Petersburg, to its registry of 'terrorists and extremists,' making him the youngest person yet on the list. This inclusion occurred a month after he was detained for allegedly setting fire to a fuse box on a railway line.

In Russia, even death isn’t enough to get you off the terrorist watchlist. Around 100 dead people remain on the registry — including Alexey Navalny.
Politicsmeduza5mo ago

In Russia, even death isn’t enough to get you off the terrorist watchlist. Around 100 dead people remain on the registry — including Alexey Navalny.

Among the more than 20,000 names on Rosfinmonitoring’s list of “terrorists and extremists,” Meduza found around 100 people who have already died. One of them is the late opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Two years after Russian authorities killed him in prison, his family still hasn’t been able to get his name struck from the registry — despite the law clearly stating that documented confirmation of death is grounds for removal. Here’s what we know about the dead stuck in Russia’s extremi...