The exiled former lawyer of the Russian punk rock and activist group Pussy Riot has been put on the Kremlin’s wanted list, Russia’s TASS news agency reports.

A source told the agency that Mark Feygin, who previously represented the anti-Kremlin group before fleeing to Ukraine, had been charged with spreading “false information”.

In a call with the Moscow Times, Mr Feygin has since said: “They [the Russian authorities] have their own logic and are guided by considerations unknown to us. Why have they done it now? 

“But this was not a surprise to me, I was expecting this.”

Mr Feygin was stripped of his lawyer status in 2018 and labelled a “foreign agent” in 2022. 

He has previously served as a deputy in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

In 2012, Pussy Riot came to the attention of Russian authorities after staging a protest inside a Moscow cathedral.

They have continued to protest against the Kremlin, with members of the group having to serve a string of jail sentences.