{"id":41664,"date":"2024-02-20T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41664"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:17","slug":"us-to-announce-new-sanctions-on-russia-related-to-death-of-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/02\/20\/us-to-announce-new-sanctions-on-russia-related-to-death-of-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"US to announce new sanctions on Russia related to death of Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The US will announce a major package of sanctions on Friday aimed at Russia over the death of Russian opposition leader\u00a0Alexei<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/alexei-navalny\"> <\/a>Navalny, it was announced moments ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House national security spokesperson&nbsp;<strong>John Kirby<\/strong>&nbsp;made the statement on Tuesday, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The package will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr Navalny\u201d and for its actions over the course of the war in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, Kirby said, without providing details on the sanctions measures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s coming very close to two years since Russia invaded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;on February 24, 2022 and the US announcement will be made on the eve of that anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"c5010f8f-bb4a-454d-a420-ae1d6286db54\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e5a2f913e2b5e6ec6ce46339fd59160c5ee0709d\/0_140_4203_2523\/master\/4203.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"In this grab taken from video, Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, pays tribute to her son at the memorial to victims of political repression, in Salekhard, 1,937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this grab taken from video, Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, pays tribute to her son at the memorial to victims of political repression, in Salekhard, 1,937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.Photograph: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=180444840287&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2024%2Ffeb%2F20%2Frussia-ukraine-war-live-russia-exploiting-aid-delays-says-zelenskiy-pilot-who-defected-found-dead-in-spain%3FCMP%3Dshare_btn_fb%26page%3Dwith%253Ablock-65d4d2e88f08f34cc5dbd45e%23block-65d4d2e88f08f34cc5dbd45e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Russia-Ukraine+war+live%3A+US+to+announce+new+sanctions+on+Russia+related+to+Navalny%E2%80%99s+death&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2024%2Ffeb%2F20%2Frussia-ukraine-war-live-russia-exploiting-aid-delays-says-zelenskiy-pilot-who-defected-found-dead-in-spain%3FCMP%3Dshare_btn_tw%26page%3Dwith%253Ablock-65d4d2e88f08f34cc5dbd45e%23block-65d4d2e88f08f34cc5dbd45e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US will announce a major package of sanctions on Friday aimed at Russia over the death of Russian opposition leader\u00a0Alexei Navalny, it was announced moments ago. White House national security spokesperson&nbsp;John Kirby&nbsp;made the statement on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The package will: Hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr Navalny\u201d and for its actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12934,7234,9127,6213,5340,7693,12727,3457,5217,9265,5713,5655,5180,9262,6348,9539,8033,5251,6571,2982],"class_list":["post-41664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alexei-navalny","tag-death","tag-february","tag-john-kirby","tag-moscow","tag-national-security","tag-package","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanction","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-victims","tag-video","tag-war","tag-white","tag-white-house"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41666,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions\/41666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}