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The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement due to the sanctions on Navalny
The European Union imposed sanctions on the Navalny case in mid-October. Two months later, Russia decided to respond.
In response to EU sanctions in the Alexei Navalny poisoning case, Russia has expanded the sanction lists of representatives of EU countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, December 22.
“It includes those who are involved in escalating sanctions activity against Russia within the EU,” the statement said.
“The corresponding notes verbales from the Russian Foreign Ministry informing about this step were presented to the heads of the diplomatic missions of Germany, France and Sweden, and also sent to the EU Delegation in Moscow,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed.
They noted that “hostile actions by Western countries will continue to receive an adequate response.” “We consider it categorically unacceptable for the European Union to take illegal restrictive measures against several of our compatriots under the pretext of their alleged participation in the incident with the Russian citizen Navalny, at the suggestion of its main member states,” the statement said.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry noted that the countries that initiated this step “did not provide evidence in this case, not only to the Russian authorities, despite our repeated appeals to them, but even to their own EU partners.”
In a climate of haste and secrecy, the EU Council adopted a confrontational political decision that contravenes the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council and the Helsinki principles of non-interference in internal affairs, cooperation between states and the Conscious compliance with obligations under international law. specific surnames, “said the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Recall that the EU made a decision on sanctions for the Navalny poisoning on October 15. The sanctions list included six Russian officials, as well as the Organic Chemistry Research Institute.
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