Russia won't cancel Navalny's 'terrorist' status even though he's dead, widow says


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  • Friday, 10 Jan 2025

FILE PHOTO: A picture of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is attached to a fence outside the Russian Embassy, in London, Britain, February 17, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead, his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on Friday.

She published a Dec. 16 letter from the watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, that said Navalny was the subject of a criminal investigation into money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It said the watchdog had not been informed of any move to drop the case, and therefore he was still on the list.

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