EU ambassadors agreed Wednesday to add nine people to a Russia blacklist for their organisation of recent “elections” in Russia-occupied east Ukraine, the RFE/RFL news agency reports. The EU also aims to blacklist five others for violations of anti-chemical weapons accords in Russia’s use of a nerve agent to try to assassinate a former spy in the UK in March, with EU foreign ministers to endorse the moves on Monday. …read more
Source: EUobserver