Russia adds ex-PM Kasyanov, econom Guriev to ‘extrems and terrors’ l | World News

Kasyanov served as prime miner for the first four years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule. (Photo: X/@PiQNewswire)

Russia’s financial watchdog has added former prime miner Mikhail Kasyanov and leading econom Sergei Guriev to its l of “extrems and terrors”, its website showed on Monday.

Kasyanov served as prime miner 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.
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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” Russia in November 2023.

Guriev is a former chief econom at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who now serves as dean of the London Business School.