February 25, 2026
In Russia, even death isn’t enough to get you off the terrorist watchlist. Around 100 dead people remain on the registry — including Alexey Navalny.
Among the more than 20,000 names on Rosfinmonitoring’s list of “terrorists and extremists,” Meduza found around 100 people who have already died. One of them is the late opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Two years after Russian authorities killed him in prison, his family still hasn’t been able to get his name struck from the registry — despite the law clearly stating that documented confirmation of death is grounds for removal. Here’s what we know about the dead stuck in Russia’s extremism database.
TL;DR
- Approximately 100 deceased individuals are still listed as "terrorists and extremists" by Rosfinmonitoring in Russia.
- Opposition politician Alexey Navalny, killed in prison two years ago, remains on the list despite laws allowing removal upon death confirmation.
- Bureaucratic processes and the requirement to close criminal cases are cited as reasons for the delay in removing names.
- Other deceased individuals, like Andrey Kotov and Pavel Ganzhula, are also stuck on the registry.
- Some cases show names added to the list decades after the person's recorded death, such as Ruslan Alimpashaevich Yakhyaev.
- The average time a deceased person remains on the list is about one year and 10 months, but some have remained for nine years.
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