EU because Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny was poisoned with chemicals in Russia. Decided to impose sanctions on 6 people and one organization from this country.

Head of the Russian intelligence agency among those to be sanctioned. There are also two deputy ministers of defense.

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The European Union has decided to sanction Russia.

Russian intelligence agency chief among them, according to a statement from the EU. Six people, including two deputy defense ministers, were placed on the sanctions list. The EU also put a Russian organization on its sanctions list.

Navalnıy, who took the plane from Tomsk, Russia to Moscow on 20 August, got sick during the flight and the plane landed in Omsk city.

It was alleged that Navalniy, who was hospitalized in Omsk, was poisoned with a substance mixed with his tea.

Navalny, 44, was transferred from Omsk on a private plane to the Charite Hospital in Berlin on 22 August. German Government Spokesperson Steffen Seibert announced on September 2 that Navalniy was definitely poisoned with a chemical belonging to the Noviçok group, which was used to combat nervous diseases.