The Biden administration will impose a fresh slate of sanctions on more than 500 targets on Friday in response to the death of opposition figure Alexey Navalny and on the eve of Russia’s two-year war in Ukraine, according to a Treasury official.
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The refusal of Russian authorities to release Alexey Navalny’s body to his mother shows they are afraid of the opposition leader even after his death, according to Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Russian human rights advocate and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The Russian Investigative Committee has set more conditions to release Alexey Navalny’s body to his mother, according to Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.