On Thursday, Russia’s financial regulatory body, Rosfinmonitoring, added exiled writer and anti-war thinker Dmitry Bykov to its roster of “terrorists and extremists.”

This classification grants authorities the power to freeze his bank accounts and restrict his access to financial services without needing a judicial order. The list compiled by Rosfinmonitoring includes over 17,800 individuals and more than 800 organizations marked as “terrorists and extremists.”

In April, Russian investigators charged Bykov, who currently resides in the United States, with disseminating “false information” regarding the conflict in Ukraine and failing to meet “foreign agent” requirements.

In July 2022, the Justice Ministry designated him as a “foreign agent.”

Bykov was added to a federal wanted list in July, and last month, a court in Moscow ordered his pre-trial detention in absentia on the aforementioned charges.

In December 2023, one of Russia’s major publishing houses halted the publication and sale of Bykov’s books due to his anti-war stance.

A vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, Bykov has been a faculty member at Cornell University since 2022 and currently serves as a professor of modern languages and cultures at the University of Rochester.