U.S. sanctions Russia for poisoning dissident

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Alexei Navalny in court in Moscow on Feb. 20 Associated Press/Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko

U.S. sanctions Russia for poisoning dissident

The American government has concluded with high confidence that Russian agents attacked opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the nerve agent Novichok in August 2020. The White House on Tuesday announced travel and business restrictions on seven senior members of the Russian government and 12 other businesses or entities. The European Union also said it would sanction Russia.

How is Navalny doing? After recovering in Germany from the near-fatal poisoning, he returned to Russia, where authorities arrested him on a charge of violating his parole. He has since been sent to a Russian prison camp.

Dig deeper: Read Mindy Belz’s report in Globe Trot about Navalny’s confession of faith at a recent court hearing.

Lynde Langdon

Lynde is WORLD’s executive editor for news. She is a graduate of World Journalism Institute, the Missouri School of Journalism, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Lynde resides with her family in Wichita, Kan.

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