Oleg Tinkov, founder of the online bank Tinkoff, classified as a “foreign agent”. Hundreds of people, human rights activists, opponents or independent journalists, have been classified in recent years as ‘foreign agents’ According to the Russian Ministry of Justice, Oleg Tinkingov, who lives abroad, “spread false information” about Kremlin policy and the conflict in Ukraine.

He renounced his Russian nationality in 2022, saying he did not want “to be associated with a fascist country which started a war with its peaceful neighbor”