Navally poisoning: EU imposes sanctions on Russia, Russia pledges revenge

Those who will suffer stops on trips and whose assets will be raised include Federal Security Chief (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov and two deputy ministers.

Mr. Navalny's healing in Berlin. He has blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the attack on the nervous agent that took place in August, writes the BBC, translates Periscopi.

The Kremlin, however, has denied having any role in this criminal enterprise.

European foreign affairs ministers agreed to these sanctions Monday, pushed forward by France and Germany, as they are convinced that the nervous agent had come from a state facility.

The EU statement issued today says that “is the reasonable conclusion that poisoning was possible only with the involvement of FSB, Russia's state security”.

The Russian government has denied findings of European experts that the extremely toxic chemical weapon Novichoku, developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War, was used.

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov had accused the EU of failing to understand what he called “the need for fair dialogue” and that Russia would retaliate against sanctions. /Periscope