Rosfinmonitoring has included journalist Arkady Babchenko in the list of terrorists and extremists.

An entry about a person with his name and date of birth appeared in the list of organizations and individuals in respect of which there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism. In the register, his name is marked with an asterisk, which usually indicates a connection with "terrorist" articles.

In 2019, a supporter of Alexei Navalny from Primorsky Krai was sentenced to a suspended sentence for reposting Babchenko’s article in an open telegram chat, according to investigators, the text contained “signs of incitement in the form of a call for violent and destructive, destructive actions,” one of the points of which is indicated "protest rallies". against the Chelyabinsk activist A few months later, a criminal case was opened for publishing in 2017 on VKontakte an excerpt from a text by journalist Arkady Babchenko about street protests and two other texts. The examination of the investigation found propaganda of right-wing Ukrainian nationalism in the text.
In 2017, journalist Arkady Babchenko left Russia, “... it was rather a question of my freedom or not freedom,” he noted then. On May 29, 2018, a message appeared about the murder of Babchenko in Kyiv. The next day, at a press conference, Babchenko himself denied the fact of his death: the murder turned out to be a staging by the SBU, which, according to him, was needed to figure out who ordered the assassination attempt on him, the traces of which led to Russia.

Journalist Arkady Babchenko included in the list of terrorists and extremists