Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny has called on the EU and U.S. to impose sanctions against more Russian businessmen close to president Vladimir Putin, including blacklisting Chelsea FC-owner Roman Abramovich and Arsenal FC shareholder Alisher Usmanov.
“You can draw up a blacklist of about 1,000 people who will no longer be allowed entry into western countries, and you can do it quietly, without any big announcement,” Navalny told the Financial Times today. “But you have to hit the propagandists of war, the ones who finance the war, the real party of war.”
According to Navalny, Putin is protecting the businessmen close to him because …read more
Source: Newsweek
