{"id":26856,"date":"2023-11-26T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26856"},"modified":"2023-11-26T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:49:35","slug":"russia-civil-war-as-deluded-putin-claims-ex-pm-and-ally-is-foreign-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/russia-civil-war-as-deluded-putin-claims-ex-pm-and-ally-is-foreign-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia civil war as deluded Putin claims ex-PM and ally is foreign agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deluded\u00a0Vladimir Putin has sought to tighten his grip on power after a former ally was added to a list of “foreign agents”.<\/p>\n

Ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov served during Vladimir Putin’s first presidential term in 2000-2004.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Kasyanov has been vocal against the Russian leader’s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

He left Russia shortly after its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and now lives in exile in Latvia.<\/p>\n

The Russian justice ministry accused Mr Kasyanov of being a member of the Russian Anti-War Committee (AWCR), “an association whose activities are aimed at discrediting Russian foreign and domestic policy”.<\/p>\n

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The AWCR was set up last year by Russian opponents of President Putin who live abroad, including the exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.<\/p>\n

Russian law allows for any figures and organisations receiving money or support from outside the country to be designated as foreign agents.<\/p>\n

The list of “foreign agents” is often used to curb anti-Kremlin opposition.<\/p>\n

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