U.S., EU sanctions on Russia over Navalny

The U.S. and European Union have imposed sanctions on nine Russian officials accused of playing a role in the poisoning and subsequent jailing of prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny


U.S. sanctions: Assets of seven officials frozen and U.S. citizens barred from dealing with them

EU sanctions: Travel ban and asset freeze on four officials

Jan 2021: Navalny (left) arrested in Moscow upon returning from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on Kremlin. Russian authorities reject accusation

Alexander Bortnikov 
Head of Federal Security Service (FSB)

Andrei Yarin
Chief of Kremlin’s domestic policy directorate

Sergei Kiriyenko 
First deputy chief of staff to Russian President

Alexei Krivoruchko 
Deputy minister of defence

Pavel Popov
Deputy minister of defence
         
Alexander Kalashnikov 
Director of federal prison service

Igor Krasnov
Prosecutor- general

Alexander Bastrykin 
Head of Investigative Committee

Viktor Zolotov
Chief of Russia’s National Guard

Other U.S. sanctions 
Imposed on 14 entities associated with Russia’s biological and chemical agent production


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Sources: Associated Press, Reuters 
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