France is asking the European Union to impose new sanctions against Russia targeting its alleged attempts at disinformation and disruption of electoral processes abroad
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An EU diplomat was quoted saying that the countries dependent on the remaining gas are strongly opposing the measure, and it would be impractical to introduce such a significant change at this stage of the 11th sanctions package s development
Ships under Russian flags already cannot enter Bulgarian ports catering to the traffic from the Black Sea. The country’s Maritime Administration set the ban on April 17 as part of the fifth package of EU sanctions, making an exception only for deliveries of critical products from Russia
The smugglers had developed a “sophisticated” system of evading international customs controls, police said, that made the shipments appear to be destined for countries not under embargo, only for them to end up in Russia