Russias state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring hasadded exiled opposition lawmaker Gennady Gudkov to its list of terrorists and extremists.Gudkov, a former KGB colonel, served in Russias lower-house State Duma from 2001 until hisouster in 2012 over what an ethics committee said was unlawful entrepreneurship.At the time, the 67-year-old denied any wrongdoing and insisted that he was being attacked for supporting the opposition movement against President Vladimir Putins re-election earlier that year.In 2019, Gudkov fled Russia to Bulgaria over fears he could be arrested.Gudkov briefly served as one of the leaders ofthe Congress of Peoples Deputies of Russia, an anti-war initiative that aims to create a body of former Russian lawmakers in exile.In May, Russiablacklisted the group as an undesirable organization and the exiled politician announced hisexit, citing his engagement with another anti-war coalition, the Paris-based Russian Democratic Club.Gudkovs designation as a terrorist and extremist comes on the same day a Moscow court arrested in absentia his son, another former Duma member, Dmitry Gudkov for criticizing the invasion of Ukraine.Being added to Russia's registry of extremists and terrorists allows the authorities to freeze designees' bank accounts without a court order.