
Press review: EU’s Kerch Strait standoff sanctions and UK’s creeping Arctic advance
Kommersant: EU to expand blacklist of Russians Nearly three months after the Kerch Strait standoff, the European Union intends to impose more restrictive measures against the Russian Federation. However, Monday’s meeting of top EU-member diplomats in Brussels showed that the new restrictions would be relatively modest, Kommersant wrote. Instead of introducing additional economic sanctions, it was decided to widen the list of Russian citizens who are banned from entering the EU. And so their names are expected to be publicized in the coming days. The European Union claims that Russia’s detention of the seamen is ‘illegal’ and has repeatedly urged Moscow and Kiev to come…