The Russian Foreign Ministry said that “unfriendly actions on the part of Western countries will continue to receive an adequate response”
Russia has expanded the sanctions lists of EU representatives in response to EU sanctions on the case of Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, Interfax reported.
“Based on the principle of reciprocity, it was decided to expand the reciprocal list of representatives of EU member states who are banned from entering the territory of the Russian Federation. It includes those involved in escalating anti-Russian sanctions activity within the EU,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The corresponding verbal notes of the Russian Foreign Ministry informing of this step have been handed to the heads of diplomatic missions of Germany, France and Sweden and also sent to the EU mission in Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that “unfriendly actions on the part of Western countries will continue to receive an adequate response.
“We consider categorically unacceptable the adoption by the European Union, at the instigation of its leading member states, of illegal restrictive measures against a number of our compatriots under the pretext of their alleged involvement in the incident with Russian citizen Navalny”, – said a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website.
It pointed out that the countries that initiated the move “did not provide evidence in this case not only to the Russian authorities, despite our repeated appeals to them, but even to their own EU partners”.