A top aide to jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny announced he will take a break from his work at the Anti-Corruption Foundation and apologized for writing a letter to the European Union asking for sanctions on billionaire Mikhail Fridman and his partners to be lifted.
Leonid Volkov, chairman of the board of Navalny’s foundation, said he made a “big political mistake” by writing to the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, in October requesting sanctions relief for the Alfa Group partners.
