EU Sanctions Six Putin Allies Over the Poisoning of Navalny
- Targets include the chief of Russia’s domestic spy agency
- Russian government calls move a ‘deliberately unfriendly step’
Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin.
Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
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The European Union blacklisted six people in Russia allied to President Vladimir Putin as punishment for the attempted murder of opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
The targets of the EU asset freezes and travel bans imposed on Thursday include Aleksandr Bortnikov, leader of Russia’s domestic spy agency; Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff in the presidential administration; and Andrei Yarin, head of the presidential administration’s domestic policy directorate.