EUobserver learned the timing of agreeing on EU sanctions due to Navalny’s death

Ambassadors of the European Union countries at a meeting in Brussels on March 13 intend to agree on sanctions against Russia due to the death of Alexei Navalny , writes EUobserver, which has reviewed the draft document.

According to the publication, 35 people will fall under the restrictive measures of Brussels, among them the heads of Russian prisons and judges, as well as two colonies - IK-6 and IK-3 (Navalny was kept in both, one is in the Vladimir region, the second, "Polar Wolf ", - in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where the oppositionist spent the last two months before his death).

EU sanctions include freezing assets and a ban on entry into the EU , the publication notes. Bloomberg also previously wrote that 35 people will be included in Brussels’ sanctions list due to Navalny’s death . The United States , Great Britain , Canada and Australia have already announced sanctions due to Navalny’s death . Russia has repeatedly called Western sanctions illegal and illegitimate.

EUobserver points out that the document does not contain conclusions about the causes of Navalny’s death. A number of Western countries previously blamed the Russian authorities for Navalny’s death ; the Kremlin called these statements “boorish.” 

The FSIN department for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced Navalny’s death on February 16. During a walk in colony No. 3 in Kharp, he became ill and almost immediately lost consciousness, the department said. They also said that the arriving doctors tried to provide assistance to Navalny, but this did not bring results and they declared death.

On March 1, Navalny was buried at the Borisov Cemetery in Moscow.