Navalny Case : Russia – EU Tensions escalate

At light of the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions over the blogger Alexey Navalny case Russia has made a decision to expand the retaliatory list of EU representatives who are prohibited from entering Russia, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The Foreign Ministry dismissed as “categorically unacceptable” the introduction of illegal restrictive measures (initiated by the EU’s leading member-states) against a number of Russians on the pretext of their alleged involvement in the Navalny case. “The countries that initiated this measure presented no evidence either to the Russian authorities, in defiance of repeated requests dispatched to them, or to their own…