Economics
Putin ‘Propagandist’ Added to EU Sanctions Without Oligarchs
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The European Union targeted a Russian state news service chief, labeled a propagandist for the Kremlin, while excluding business leaders from a new wave of sanctions over the seizure of Ukraine’s southern Crimea region.
EU governments imposed an asset freeze and visa ban on the head of the Rossiya Segodnya state news service, Dmitry Kiselyov, who was termed a “central figure of the government propaganda supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine,” according to a list published today in Brussels.