The Council of the European Union introduced personal sanctions due to “internal repression” and human rights violations in Russia. The document was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The list, as Current Time wrote, was unofficially named in honor of Alexei Navalny.
Today the Federal Penitentiary Service and 19 other people were brought there. These are judges and security officials who participated in the cases of Navalny, as well as human rights activist Oleg Orlov and activist Sasha Skochilenko, convicted in cases of military “fakes.”
These include judges of the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk Ekaterina Galyautdinova, Inna Fesenko and Andrei Fedorov, who recognized the investigators’ refusal to investigate Navalny’s poisoning in 2020 as legal, and judge of the Leninsky District Court of Kirov Sergei Blinov, who passed a verdict in the Kirovles case in 2013.
The list also included a judge of the Vasileostrovsky District Court Petersburg court Oksana Demyasheva, who sentenced Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in prison, and judge of the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow Elena Astakhova, who sentenced Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in prison. Restrictions were also introduced against employees of the prosecutor's office who represented the state prosecution at the trials — Alexander Gladyshev and Sergei Vorobyov.
In March, the European Union already imposed sanctions due to the murder of Navalny in the Yamal colony. They included two colonies and fourteen judges, including the Chairman of the Moscow City Court Mikhail Ptitsyn.
In addition to personal sanctions, the European Union also imposed restrictions on the supply to Russia of “equipment, technology or software that can be used for repression [inside Russia].»
These included DPI technology, which Roskomnadzor uses to block content, equipment for suppressing satellite signals, and software for intercepting user data. The UK has already introduced similar restrictions.