Russia says it plans to add the “international Satanism movement” to a financial blacklist, per President Vladimir Putin.
The move will allow Russia to freeze and seize assets of alleged members even if they have no criminal record.
Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian federal agency that maintains the financial blacklist of “terrorists and extremists”, added the “international Satanism movement” to its list on Friday, its website showed.
The BRICS country has been pushing for the blacklisting for several months now. “The movement is closely linked to manifestations of radical nationalism and neo-Nazism,” Russia’s prosecutor general said in a statement in July.
