U.S President Joe Biden meets with Yulia Navalnaya, right, widow of Alexei Navalny, and daughter Dasha Navalnaya in San Francisco. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died while imprisoned in a remote Arctic penal colony. Adam Schultz/White House/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
US President Joe Biden announced on Friday more than 500 new sanctions on Russia in response to the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and a day before the second anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. "Today, I am announcing more than 500 new sanctions against Russia for its ongoing war of conquest on Ukraine and for the death of [Alexei] Navalny, who was a courageous anti-corruption activist and Putin’s fiercest opposition leader," Biden said. "These sanctions will target individuals connected to Navalny’s imprisonment as well as Russia’s financial sector, defense...
