This Friday, the UK announced sanctions against the organizers of the recent Russian “election farce” in the Ukrainian territories illegally annexed by Moscow a year ago.
“We cannot hold elections in a foreign country,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said in a statement, condemning the “election farce” staged by Russia to “attempt to legitimize its illegal control over the sovereign territory of Ukraine.”
Among the eleven new targets of British sanctions – financial and travel restrictions – are the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC), one of its top officials, Natalya Budarina, and the head of the Russian administration and head of the CEC, Andrei Alekseenko. Electoral Commissioner from the Kherson region Marina Zakharova.
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Source: CM Jornal
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