But Germany has to keep that pipeline open..keke
EU sanctions 6 Russian officials over Navalny case, claims they knew about alleged Novichok poisoning of opposition figure
The European Union has imposed penalties on a half dozen Russian officials over the alleged “assassination attempt” on anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny. They are banned from entering the bloc and their assets are frozen.
Eurocrats insist that those on the list had direct knowledge of the supposed attack on Navalny in August, or were themselves involved in its planning.
Of the six sanctioned, the two most prominent are the deputy head of the Presidential Administration, Sergey Kirienko, and Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov. Kirienko became the youngest prime minister of Russia in 1998, when Boris Yeltsin handed him the post when he was just 35 years old. He has long been regarded as a pro-Western liberal figure
Presidential Administration official Andrey Yarin, Siberian Presidential Envoy Sergey Menyailo, and Deputy Defense Ministers Alexey Krivoruchko and Pavel Popov were also sanctioned.
According to the official document, it is “reasonable to conclude” that the poisoning was conducted with the knowledge of the six named targets. In particular, Kirienko is accused of “inducing and providing support to the persons who carried out or were involved in the poisoning,” and Bortnikov is said to have been “providing support.” Bortnikov is already under another set of EU sanctions, after being targeted following the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/russia/503572-russian-officials-sanctioned-navalny-case/