{"id":2745,"date":"2025-11-18T03:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:35:30","slug":"ex-russian-pm-designated-as-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/ex-russian-pm-designated-as-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Russian PM designated as \u2018terrorist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow previously accused Mikhail Kasyanov of discrediting Russia amid the Ukraine conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russian authorities have added former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and economist Sergey Guriev to their official list of \u2018terrorists and extremists\u2019. Both individuals, who have been outspoken critics of Russia\u2019s military operation against Kiev, now reside abroad and have been outside the country for years.<\/p>\n<p>The notice was published by Russia\u2019s financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on Monday, but the entry offered no explanation for the designation.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow designated Kasyanov as a \u2018foreign agent\u2019 in 2023, saying he was <em>\u201cactively taking part in the creation and distribution\u201d<\/em> of materials by other foreign agents and spreading <em>\u201cfalse information aimed at tarnishing Russian authorities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Officials also said Kasyanov opposed Moscow\u2019s military operation in Ukraine and took part in the \u2018Anti-War Committee of Russia\u2019, an expat organization created in early 2022 shortly after the outbreak of full-scale hostilities between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Former head of Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaking during a conference.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68edf60a85f540698a1b2189.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/626404-khodorkovsky-kasparov-coup-fsb\/\">Disgraced Russian ex-oligarch wanted over coup plot \u2013 FSB<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kasyanov led the government from 2000 to 2004. After leaving office, he joined the opposition and later led the liberal-democratic Party of People\u2019s Freedom (PARNAS), which was liquidated by the Russian Supreme Court in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Critics in Russia have often referred to him as \u2018Misha two percent\u2019, a nickname that emerged from long-standing corruption allegations which he has denied.<\/p>\n<p>Guriev, the rector of the New Economic School from 2004 to 2013 who now also resides abroad, was earlier accused by Moscow of creating and distributing materials by foreign agents and speaking out against Russia\u2019s military operation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Those placed on the \u2018terrorists and extremists\u2019 register face an immediate freeze of domestic assets and strict limits on financial transactions within Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow previously accused Mikhail Kasyanov of discrediting Russia amid the Ukraine conflict The Russian authorities have added former Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}