Biden administration sets sanctions on Russia after opposition leader Alexei Navalny s poisoning
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Soviet-era nerve agent used to poison Putin critic, Germany says
Germany said test showed that the Russian opposition leader was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, the same poison used in 2018 on a former Russian spy.
Senior administration officials did not immediately identify the Russian officials targeted but said some of them had been on a list of prominent business and political figures Navalny had urged the West to sanction.
Some opposition figures and their supporters said the latest U.S. measures, restricting the U.S. travel and banking of some Russian government figures, didn t go far enough to get the attention of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia critic William Browder, a London-based investor, tweeted he feared U.S. sanctions would be way too little and not touch Putin’s billionaire cronies.
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