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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Volume:
37
Issue:
9
Abstract:
On August 20, 2021, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on seven Russian agents for their involvement in poisoning Alexei Navalny, a Russian political oppositionist and anti-corruption figure. These sanctions come on the anniversary of Navalny’s poisoning on August 20, 2020. He was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent that left him hospitalized and in critical condition. [1]
[1] UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, UK sanctions Russian FSB operatives over poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Press Rel., https://www.gov.uk/government/news/russia-uk-sanctions-fsb-operatives-ov....