MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s financial watchdog has added former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economist Sergei Guriev to its list of “extremists and terrorists”, its website showed on Monday. Kasyanov served as prime minister for the first four years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule and was sacked in February 2004, weeks before Putin was elected […]
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Russia adds ex-PM Kasyanov, economist Guriev to ‘extremists and terrorists’ list
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s financial watchdog has added former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economist Sergei Guriev to its list of “extremists and terrorists”, its website showed on Monday.
Kasyanov served as prime minister for the first four years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule and was sacked in February 2004, weeks before Putin was elected to a second term.
After his resignation, he went into opposition to the Kremlin. In 2022, he left the country and criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kasyanov was previously labelled a “foreign agent” by Russia in November 2023.
Guriev is a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who now serves as dean of the London Business School.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)