Russia imposed sanctions against EU citizens due to the "case of Navalny"

The Russian Foreign Ministry for banned the entry into the country of several citizens of the European Union, which in Moscow is considered "involved in the injection of anti -Russian sanctions activity." Who exactly has entered the new list is not yet reported. The lists were transferred to the ambassadors of Sweden, France and Germany.

The agency’s statement emphasizes that the actions of Moscow are related to the sanctions imposed by the European Union against a number of Russian senior officials in connection with the poisoning of opposition Alexei Navalny. "The countries that initiated this step did not provide evidence in this case," it is said in a statement where the incident with Navalny was called the "incident".

The fact that Moscow will impose response sanctions previously stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov.

It was in Germany, France and Sweden that experts discovered in the analysis of Alexei Navalny traces of the poisonous substance from the Novice group. Subsequently, their presence was confirmed by the organization to prohibit chemical weapons. The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized in a separate statement on the eve.

The ambassadors were called to the Foreign Ministry the day after Navalny published a recording of his conversation with, as claimed, the FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, who, thinking that he was saying with the assistant secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of Russia, actually admitted that Navalny was poisoned by special services and told the details. Previously, an investigation was published on the monitoring of Navalny employees of the FSB, among whom were doctors and chemists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin actually recognized surveillance, but the Russian authorities categorically deny poisoning. The FSB stated that the conversation published by Navalny is a fake. The Russian authorities do not put forward a whole version about what happened to Navalny on August 20.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that they did not watch the video of Navalny’s conversation with Kudryavtsev, and referred to the FSB statement. He called Navalny Peskov “sick” (previously he spoke about him as a “patient”) and suggested that he has a persecution mania: “In general, you can say that the patient has a pronounced mania of persecution. You can also clearly establish certain manifestations of the dignity of greatness. Because, as they say, he even compares himself with Jesus. Well, of course, already, of course, already manifestations of Freud. Said Peskov. He emphasized that this is his "personal point of view."

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