VOA’s Fatima Tlis contributed to this story from Washington.A Russian journalist who has been pursued by Russian police since last November following a radio commentary on a bombing said she was stunned to find out that authorities have added her to the official list of “terrorists and extremists.”In a telephone interview with the Voice of America from her home in Pskov in western Russia, Svetlana Prokopieva, 39, said she discovered last Thursday that Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has blocked her bank account and put her name on its list of “active terrorists.”She said she believes the decision was …read more
Source: Voice of America
