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Russia has imposed entry bans on representatives of the German government apparatus.

This was announced on Tuesday to the Chargé d'affaires of the German Embassy in Moscow, Beate Grzeski, during a conversation in the Russian Foreign Ministry, as the German Press Agency learned from the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Moscow is reacting to the sanctions imposed by the EU for poisoning Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the punitive measures in November.

The names of the persons concerned were not disclosed.

You will only find out about the sanction when you enter Russia.

The EU imposed sanctions on Russian officials in October because, in its opinion, the poison attack on Navalny could not have taken place without the knowledge and approval of Russian state agencies.

The EU punitive measures include entry bans and property freezes.

In addition, Europeans are no longer allowed to do business with those affected.

Also listed is the Russian state research institute for organic chemistry and technology, which is said to have developed the warfare agent.

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The Russian news agency Ria Novosti announced in the morning that the French ambassador and representatives of the German and Swedish embassies had arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow.

Laboratories in these three countries had stated that after the attack on Navalny, traces of poisoning with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group had been found.

Navalny telephones a suspected assassin

Navalny collapsed in August during a flight from within Russia.

Two days later he was brought to Berlin Charité University Hospital for treatment, lying in a coma.

Laboratory results on Novichok poisoning have been confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Navalny announced on Monday via the short message service Twitter that an employee of the Russian domestic secret service FSB had admitted to having been involved in the attack on him.

Navalny also published a transcript and a recording of the more than 45-minute phone call.

In a message to Russian news agencies, the FSB described the phone call as a “provocation” that would not have been possible without the “help of foreign intelligence agencies”.

The FSB should thereby be "discredited";

the recording published by Navalny was "fake".