Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov included in the list of terrorists and extremists

Former head of Navalny’s Headquarters Leonid Volkov and former head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov turned on to the list of terrorists and extremists.

The list is maintained by Rosfinmonitoring, it includes convicts and those accused under extremist articles. All accounts included in the list are blocked under the law on combating the financing of terrorism. Persons on the list also cannot enter into an inheritance and issue a power of attorney at a notary. The law allows you to withdraw from the card 10 thousand rubles a month for yourself and non-working family members.

In a conversation with The Insider, Ivan Zhdanov noted that the inclusion on the Rosfinmonitoring list did not come as a surprise to him.

“They used to announce “foreign agents” on Fridays, now they will announce “extremists” and “terrorists”. It has long been clear that in Russia there are three gradations: “foreign agent”, “undesirable organization” and “extremist” or “terrorist” (in fact, they are equal to each other). We are pioneers in almost all of these gradations. Leonid and I, from obvious political activists, became pioneers in this list of Rosfinmonitoring. This will now be accepted political practice. It may happen that, for example, in six months, the recognition of a new “extremist” or “terrorist” every Friday will no longer be any special news, as it is now happening with the inclusion of “foreign agents” on the list. What does this inclusion mean to me in a practical sense? Probably nothing. I had practically no money on accounts in Russian banks, ”added the ex-head of the FBK.

Lawyers interviewed by The Insider emphasize that the media are not required to label that an individual is included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists.

On February 4 last year, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation aroused in relation to Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov, a criminal case on the creation of an NPO that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (part 1 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In August SC aroused a new criminal case against Volkov and Zhdanov. “Following the results of a procedural check in the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a criminal case was initiated against Leonid Volkov, Ivan Zhdanov and other persons. They are suspected of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (collection of funds and provision of financial services, obviously intended to finance an extremist organization), ”the department’s press release said.

June 9 this year Moscow City Court acknowledged The Anti-Corruption Foundation, Navalny’s headquarters and the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens’ Rights by Extremist Organizations. Their activities are officially banned, and their members and even just supporters, according to the new law, will not be able to be elected to legislative bodies at all levels for several years. Previously, FBK was recognized as an organization acting as a foreign agent.