Human rights lawyers obtain a secret Russian registry of more than 3,000 suspected extremists. The hidden database targets prominent journalists and musicians.
Meduza · 12 Nov 2026

Human rights lawyers obtain a secret Russian registry of more than 3,000 suspected extremists. The hidden database targets prominent journalists and musicians.

The human rights group Department One has obtained access to a confidential registry maintained by Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring. It lists people Russian authorities suspect of involvement in terrorism, extremism, or sabotage, or of financing those activities.


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