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The US imposed sanctions on the director of Russia’s FSB security agency last night after concluding it carried out the poisoning attack on Vladimir Putin’s leading critic Alexei Navalny.
By Steve Holland and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow s attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year, in President Joe Biden s most direct challenge yet to the Kremlin. The sanctions against seven senior Russian officials, among them the head of its FSB security service, and on 14 entities marked a sharp departure from former President Donald Trump s reluctance to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden stopped short, however, of putting sanctions on Putin himself. Navalny, 44, fell ill on a flight in Siberia in August and was airlifted to Germany, where doctors concluded he had been poisoned with a nerve agent. The Kremlin has denied any role in his illness and said it had seen no proof he was poisoned. Navalny was arrested in January on his return from Germany following treatment for poisoning with what many Western countries say was a mili
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Washington, March 3
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow's attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year,