“The EU is working on further sanctions in response to the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Under the EU instrument against human rights violations, sanctions are to be imposed on more than 30 people connected to his death. Germany had been calling for this and submitted a list of proposed individuals in Brussels.“ – said on Monday Annalena Baerbock, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, died suddenly last month while serving a 19-year sentence in an Arctic prison. His funeral was held in Moscow on March 1, 2023
After Navalny’s death the UK and Canada sanctioned individuals heading up the penal colony where Navalny died.
