F.P. Report
BERLIN: Sanctions imposed against “high-ranking Russian officials by EU, a diplomatic source in Brussels, on Tuesday.
The sources say that the sanctions have been imposed over the situation around blogger Alexey Navalny, citing diplomatic sources in Brussels, the report also mentioned that a corresponding legal act has already been adopted in written form and “shortly” will be published in the EU Official journal.
European delegation to the Council of the European Union has also revealed that envoys of 27 EU nations agreed on new measures against Russia over the Navalny situation, imposed via the new EU sanctions mechanism, on Monday, whereas last month on February 2, Moscow’s Simonovsky Court replaced Navalny’s suspended 3.5 years in prison over the Yves Rocher case with a real imprisonment due to multiple violations of penalty rules. On February 20, Moscow City Court upheld this decision.
According to sources, sanctions cover Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin, Federal Penitentiary Service head Alexander Kalashnikov and Russian National Guard commander Viktor Zolotov.
