The six Russians who are on the European Union (EU) sanctions list because of the situation with Alexei Navalny are unlikely to try to officially challenge this decision. This is the conclusion reached by a source of the Kommersant newspaper, close to the presidential administration of Russia. Another interlocutor of the publication – an employee […]
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The six Russians who are on the European Union (EU) sanctions list because of the situation with Alexei Navalny are unlikely to try to officially challenge this decision. This is the conclusion reached by a source of the Kommersant newspaper, close to the presidential administration of Russia.
Another interlocutor of the publication – an employee of the presidential administration – noted that the Kremlin reacts to such restrictions as to a reward.
One of the defendants on the black list, the plenipotentiary of the Russian president in the Siberian Federal District, Sergei Menyailo, in turn, said that sanctions were being imposed on him for the third or fourth time. “It will not affect my work or my daily life,” he said, adding that he never had real estate or other assets abroad.
On the eve of October 15, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reacted to the EU sanctions against Russians. He promised that Moscow would analyze the current situation and act in its own interests. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the EU Council’s decision has damaged relations with Russia, since no logic can be seen in this step.
On October 15, the European Union imposed sanctions against six Russians and one research institute over the situation with Navalny. In particular, the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian president’s internal policy department Andrei Yarin, the deputy defense ministers of Russia Alexei Krivoruchko and Pavel Popov, and the plenipotentiary of the Russian president in the Siberian Federal District, Sergei Menyailo, were sanctioned. These persons are prohibited from entering the territory of the European Union, their financial assets in European banks are frozen.
Following the EU, the UK imposed restrictions. London will freeze assets and ban the entry of those allegedly responsible for what happened to the Russian. The sanctions will affect six people and one organization.
Navalny became ill on August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. In the first two days, doctors from the Omsk hospital helped him. They also introduced him to an artificial coma. On August 22, the patient was sent to a clinic in Berlin, and in September he was taken out of the coma and discharged. German experts have identified a substance from the Novichok group in the oppositionist’s body.
Сообщение The reaction in the Kremlin to EU sanctions over Navalny became known появились сначала на supercar.ru.
