The European Union will prepare new anti-Russian sanctions within a week. This was stated by the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, the work should take no more than a week. He specified that the EU “intends to apply for the first time a new regime of sanctions for violation of human rights.”
On the eve it was reported that the Council of the European Union decided to impose sanctions against persons associated with the conviction of Alexei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent). Then Borrell said that Russia, in the view of the EU countries, is “a neighbor, which, however, behaves like a political adversary.
The fact that the foreign ministers of the EU countries were preparing to impose sanctions against four high-ranking Russian security officials became known earlier on February 22. Most likely we are talking about the heads of the Investigative Committee, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the National Guard and the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one for violating the conditions for observing the probationary period in the Yves Rocher case. The UFSIN asked to appoint him a sentence of imprisonment in a colony for a period of 3.5 years. Navalny was charged with 60 violations of public order after a suspended sentence. He will stay in the colony for 2 years and 8 months, taking into account the year spent under house arrest during the preliminary investigation in the Yves Rocher case.