The Biden administration imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian operatives involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny . Alexey Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev were sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act for having acted as agents of or on behalf of a person in a matter relating to extrajudicial killings torture or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights . The State Department imposed visa sanctions on the four blocking them and their immediate family members from entry to the United States . In August Navalny collapsed on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok . He was medically evacuated to Berlin and treated in the German capital before returning to Russia in January . Earlier this month Navalny was sentenced to years in prison on extremism charges which the State Department condemned as an unjust conclusion to an unjust trial . He is already serving sentences totaling andahalf years in a maximum security facility where Russian authorities have repeatedly sent Navalny to solitary confinement and denied him access to counsel and denied medical care . He has been incarcerated there since. He has since returned to Russia . The U.S. has done extensive reporting on the team involved in Navalnys poisoning including Bellingcat has published a number of articles . The US Treasury Department has released a series of articles including a series on its own website. The State. has released several of the articles to this article. The American National Institute of Diplomatic Correspondence. The National Institute for Diplomatic Services: The National Council of Correspondency: The American Council of Foreign Correspondence to the National Committee of Correspondence: The Council of Diplomacy of Diplomats
Biden admin imposes sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian operatives tied to Navalny poisoning .
