The European Union has agreed to extend its blacklist of Russians subject to sanctions for stoking the conflict in eastern Ukraine. It has also started intense discussions on details of possible restrictions on sophisticated sectors of strategic Russian industries.
A meeting of ambassadors of the EU’s member states ended yesterday with agreement on the names of individual Russians who will be barred from travelling to the EU and whose assets will be frozen. The names will officially be disclosed this afternoon. The people targeted include top-level members of Russia’s security establishment and may include Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Chechen Republic. …read more
Source: European Voice
