The United States and European Union rolled out sanctions against Russia on Tuesday for poisoning and imprisoning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The post U.S. and European Union Sanction Russia Over Poisoning of Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny first appeared on Law & Crime.
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The US has concluded that Russian intelligence agencies were behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and has imposed sanctions on multiple senior government officials.
Names of the seven members of the Russian government to be sanctioned include Andrei Yarin, the chief of the Kremlin s domestic policy directorate, and Alexander Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), according to a statement. They will be blocked from accessing financial assets in the US.
Pavel Popov and Aleksei Krivoruchko, both deputy ministers of defence with responsibility for research and armaments, are also on the list, as is Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff to the president’s office.
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