After the poison attack on the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny, the EU will impose sanctions on six people and one organization from Russia. Representatives of the EU countries agreed on this today in Brussels, as the dpa learned from diplomats.
The punitive measures, which include EU entry bans and property freezes, are now to be formally adopted in a written procedure. They could take effect in the coming days. According to information from EU circles, the persons concerned are, among others, employees of the security apparatus. The state research institute for organic chemistry and technology is named as the affected organization.
Navalny collapsed on August 20 while on a domestic flight in Russia. After an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk, he was relocated to the Berlin Charite at the urging of his family. The 44-year-old has now left the hospital, but has not yet fully recovered and is undergoing rehab in the German capital. Navalny suspects that the Russian state is behind the poison attack on him. The opposition is one of the sharpest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
