Hello one, hello all. My name is Nicholas Anthony. I've published a new report on debanking here at the Cato Institute to help document what has happened here in the United States and maybe steer Congress toward a freer financial system.

And today, I'm joined by a special guest who recently had her bank account shuttered.

But her story is part of a unique but growing trend among human rights defenders.

It's called transnational repression.

I know, that's a mouthful, but this is when authoritarian governments leverage the law to target their opponents who have fled to safer countries.

So to figure out what this is and to talk about the experience, I'm joined by Anna Chukovic, she's a Russian dissident living in exile, and she's the financial director of Alexi Novani's

Anti-Corruption Foundation. Now, don't worry. We might be opening a box of rain here, but I promise

the story will end on a higher note. So, Anna, before we turn to your debanking experience just this

past month, tell the people about the Anti-Corruption Foundation

and what you were doing before you had to leave Russia. Hi, Nick. Thank you for having me here today.

So the Anti-Corruption Foundation was founded by the leader of Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny, back in 2011.

So our organization's main goal is to destroy the Russian regime, the regime of Vladimir Putin,

and we expose the corruption of Russian authorities and oligarchs.

We expose their war crimes, and we try to do everything we can to get rid of this bloody

regime.

And I personally joined the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2017.

I lived in Moscow back then, and our headquarters was located in Moscow.

It was during the presidential campaign when Alexine Navalny decided to run for president of Russia.

He wanted to have his name on the ballot.

He wanted to give an opportunity for Russian citizens to vote for someone

else, not only for Putin. Usually we have Putin, three, four other random names on the ballot

that no one even knows. And Alexina Van Lee wanted to see his name on the ballot. And we had a big

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