Highlights: Death of Navalny: Western pressures increase against Moscow. Western chancelleries are summoning Russian ambassadors in turn and considering new sanctions. The rhetoric even hardened in Brussels where the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell warned that Vladimir Putin will have to “be held accountable” for Navalny's death. Finally, in Washington, American President Joe Biden said he was considering new. sanctions against Russia, which would be added to a battery of sanctions already applied against Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

After the announcement of the death of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent, who died in prison in circumstances still unknown, the tension does not subside. Western chancelleries convene in turn…

Death of Navalny: Western pressures increase against Moscow

After the announcement of the death of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent, who died in prison in circumstances still unknown, the tension does not subside. Western chancelleries are summoning Russian ambassadors in turn and considering new sanctions against Moscow. Overview.

Protesters march in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, February 18, 2024. © REUTERS - ANNEGRET HILSE

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After London, which had summoned diplomats from the Russian embassy on Friday evening, to inform them that the Russian authorities would be held "

fully responsible

" for the death of the number one opponent of the Kremlin, this Monday several European governments made it likewise.

Berlin first, followed by Stockholm which also took the initiative at European level to examine the possibility of new sanctions against Moscow. Madrid, The Hague, Oslo then Paris followed suit, summoning the Russian ambassadors of the respective countries, to ask them for clarification on the death of Alexei Navalny, whose

body has still not been returned

to the family nor to loved ones.

Read alsoRussia: opponent Alexeï Navalny died in prison

The rhetoric even hardened in Brussels where the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell warned, after meeting the widow of the Russian opponent, that Vladimir Putin will have to “

be held accountable

” for Navalny's death. At the end of a meeting with EU foreign ministers, the Twenty-Seven called for an “

independent and transparent international investigation into the circumstances of this sudden death

”.

Finally, in Washington, American President Joe Biden said he was considering new sanctions against Russia, which would be added to a battery of sanctions already applied against Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Read alsoRussia: Westerners point to the “responsibility” of the Kremlin in the death of Alexeï Navalny

Death of Navalny: Western pressures increase against Moscow

Death of Navalny: Western pressures increase against Moscow

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