Alexei Navalny: Putin maintains the designation of “terrorist” for the dead dissident

Vladimir Putin’s will not lift the designation of “terrorist” for him even though he is dead, said Friday (10.01,2025) the widow of the late political dissident, Yulia Navalnaya. The financial control supervisory authority in Russia, “Rosfinmonitoring” rejected a request to remove from the list of “terrorists and extremists” the late opposition leader, Alexei Navalni although he has died, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya said Friday. CORVERSE She gave the public a letter dated 16 December received from ‘Rosfinmonitoring’, stating that Alexei Navalni was the subject of a criminal investigation into money laundering and terrorist financing. In fact, the authority states in the letter that it received no legal request to put an end to the criminal case and thus Navalni remains on the list. Navalni died suddenly at the age of 47 in February 2024 in a “colony” of prisoners in the Arctic where he served a prison sentence of more than 30 years for a number of charges, which he had denied, describing them as an attempt to stop his criticisms against Vladimir Putin. CORVERSE Yulia Navalnaya blames Putin for her husband’s death and has offered a reward to anyone who can give evidence that proves he was murdered. The Kremlin strongly denies this claim and Russian interrogators say it died of natural causes. “Putin fears Alexei even after killing him… Why does Putin need this? Apparently, to forbid Alexei from opening an account at the bank. But that is no longer possible. Putin is doing this to scare you. He still wants you to be afraid and remember him and gradually forget his name. But no one will forget him,” Navalnaya wrote in her post on Telegram app ‘Rosfinmonitoring’ is authorised to commit the bank accounts of those registered in the ‘Terrorists and extremists’ register. Among the thousands of people and groups included in the list are Navalnaya herself and three lawyers of her late husband, who are due to be tried next week on charges of participation in an extremist group. Prosecutors claim that lawyers used their access to Navalny to allow him to continue his subversive activity even after his imprisonment. Their supporters say they are being punished for simply doing their job and that prosecution of lawyers exceeds a new crackdown threshold in Putin’s Russia. The Kremlin says it does not comment on individual court cases, but authorities have described Navalni and his supporters as traitors supported by the West and seek to destabilise the country.