{"id":656075,"date":"2025-12-26T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656075\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:03:14","slug":"russia-doubles-number-of-under-18s-labeled-as-terrorists-and-extremists-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656075\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Doubles Number of Under-18s Labeled as Terrorists and Extremists in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of minors placed on Russia\u2019s official \u201cterrorists and extremists\u201d register more than doubled in 2025, with the youngest addition being a 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Rosfinmonitoring, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tvpworld.com\/90326860\/peace-deal-with-ukraine-could-be-pointless-as-russia-breaks-the-deals-it-signs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian government<\/a>\u00a0body that maintains the list, added a total of 4,018 names this year\u2014a seven-year high\u2014after authorities intensified enforcement of anti-extremism laws, resulting in a 26% increase from 2024 and the inclusion of 341 minors, independent Russian outlet Verstka Media reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JOIN US ON TELEGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of the war on the <a class=\"inarticle_link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Kyivpost_official\" target=\"_blank\">@Kyivpost_official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among those added was Timofei Mamoshkin from the Ryazan region in western Russia, who turned 14 in September and was accused of terrorism, Verstka Media reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The number of under-18s placed on the register more than doubled from 161 in 2024 and was nearly six times higher than in 2023, when 51 minors were added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list also expanded to include prominent businessmen, political scientists and bloggers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, Russian lawmakers approved legislation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tvpworld.com\/87964875\/russia-to-punish-searches-for-extremist-content-as-censorship-grows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imposing fines on individuals<\/a>\u00a0who read or search online for material that authorities classify as \u201cextremist,\u201d further tightening controls on information access.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of minors placed on Russia\u2019s official \u201cterrorists and extremists\u201d register more than doubled in 2025, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-656075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115786481993467288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}