Russian finance watchdog adds Navalny network to ‘extremist’ list

Move comes amid intense pressure from Moscow on jailed Kremlin critic’s political movement.

Russia’s financial monitoring agency has added Alexey Navalny’s network of regional campaign offices to a list of organisations involved in “terrorism and extremism”. Rosfinmonitoring’s move on Friday came as Moscow piles the pressure on Navalny’s opposition movement while the Kremlin critic languishes in jail. On Thursday, amid the tensions, Navalny’s team said they would disband the campaign offices before May 17, when judicial authorities are due to decide whether to outlaw them – and the 44-year-old’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption (FBK) – as “extremist”.