If sanctions are accepted against the leadership of the GRU, Russia will be in the company with the DPRK, Syria and Zimbabwe - expert

The British authorities called on the European Union to impose sanctions against senior employees of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU). “Half a dozen people” may fall under restrictive measures, and the decision must be agreed in the coming weeks.

The teacher Sergei Glandin, a teacher of the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law, told the teacher of the International Faculty of Law, told the Insider about how this will affect the interaction of Russian military intelligence officers with European colleagues.

Britain is still an EU member country. The current European sanctions policy provides that the issue of including certain persons in the sanctions lists should be decided by consensus at a meeting of the EU Council.

Therefore, everything that remains of doing the UK is through his permanent representative in the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ask for the issue of the agenda at the next meeting and hope for the adoption of their proposal in the proposed edition.

The inclusion in the sanctions list of heads of intelligence services is not something extraordinary. Even heads of state can boast of being in the EU lists. Lukashenko, Mugaba, Yanukovych, Ben Ali, Bashar Assad and others have such experience, not to mention the heads of intelligence services.

The European sanctions list contains the heads of intelligence of Syria and the DPRK, there were the heads of diwastense of Iran and Zimbabwe. In addition, there you can find the head of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin, included there when he was the speaker of the State Duma.

I don’t think that the inclusion of Igor Korobov in this list [Head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-The Insider] will somehow complicate international contacts between intelligence. European sanctions concern to a greater extent the private side of life than official. This is the arrest of personal assets and the ban on visiting member countries in personal quality. Moreover, these sanctions are not absolute. The competent authority of the EU member country can, on its own initiative or at the request of the defendant, temporarily or partially remove the restrictions introduced, for example, for a trip to treatment. Or remove the arrest from the European bank account in order to pay off lawyers. And intelligence interacted and will continue to interact.