Washington, March 3
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow's attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year,
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A Russian activist who called on the Biden administration to sanction 35 individuals for actively participating "in the oppression and corruption of Putin’s regime," told Fox News the U.S. sanctions announced Tuesday are a "good start" but not the end of their fight.
Tough US Sanctions On Russia Over Poisoning And Jailing Aleksey Navalny
MOSCOW (dpa-AFX) - The United States has imposed a tough set of sanctions on Russia over the attempted assassination and subsequent imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny.
Announcing the sanctions at a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the U.S. intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia s Federal Security Service used a nerve agent to poison Navalny on August 20.
Psaki said the measures were taken also to hold Russia accountable for jailing the opposition leader in January 2021.
The State Department expanded existing sanctions under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act.