(Reuters) -Russia’s financial watchdog has added former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economist Sergei Guriev to its list of “extremists and terrorists” in its latest moves against prominent exiled critics of the Kremlin.

The watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, added the two men to a list that now comprises 19,131 people and 823 organisations, according to its website.

The list, which has expanded sharply during Russia’s war in Ukraine, provides a public vehicle for the authorities to highlight individuals and entities they regard as engaged in subversion against the state.

Rosfinmonitoring, which is responsible for countering money-laundering and terrorist financing, can freeze the bank accounts of those on the list.

Kasyanov served as prime minister for the first four years of

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