Russia’s State Duma approved sweeping restrictions allowing authorities to freeze exiles’ accounts and property, block online banking, and deny them passports and most consular services.

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, plans to fast-track an expanded piece of legislation that would cut off exiled anti-war Russians from online banking, real…

Russian authorities have begun to freeze the bank accounts of prominent figures who have left the country in recent years, in implementation of a law passed last July to…