Navalny, the most prominent member of Russia's opposition, campaigned to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election, but was barred from running, and this month a Russian court sentenced him to an additional 19 years in prison.
The US sanctioned Alexei Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev. All three of them are the operatives of the Federal Security Services, known as the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB.
The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian intelligence operatives accused of direct involvement in the 2020 poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a Russian politician and corruption investigator who is one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Alexei Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev.
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