FILE PHOTO: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot protest group and close friend of anti-Kremlin activist and publisher of a Russian online news portal Pyotr Verzilov, speaks during an interview in an apartment in Moscow, Russia September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk band, a prominent art collector and a well-known satirist as "foreign agents", the latest in a series of moves critics say are designed to stifle dissent.
Capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era, Russian authorities this week ordered the closure of the country's oldest human rights group Memorial International.
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