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, 23.02.2024, 14:15

SANCTIONS The United States will impose new sanctions on Russia in response to the death of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalnyi but also to mark two years of war in Ukraine. The sanctions are targeting five hundred entities associated with Russia’s military industrial compound and also companies from third countries, which are helping Russia bypass the earlier sanctions. Great Britain is also to impose new sanctions on this occasion of marking two years since the Russian troops invaded Ukraine.

 

VISIT Romania’s Foreign Minister, Luminita Odobescu has arrived in India this morning to attend the international ‘Raisina Dialogue’ underway in New Delhi. Presently at its 9th edition, “Raisina Dialogue” is India’s emblematic conference on geopolitics and geo-economy aimed at dealing with the most difficult issues the world is facing nowadays. During her visit the Romanian diplomat is expected to have talks with her Indian counterpart Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

 

TENNIS The Romanian tennis player Sorana Cîrstea managed a sensational win against Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic on Thursday in the quarterfinals of WTA 1000 tournament in Dubai. Cîrstea, WTA 22, lost the first set and the Czech got a 5-1 lead in the second. However, the Romanian made a brilliant comeback and secured the second set and also the decisive one, ending the match 2-6, 7-6, 6-2. Cîrstea will be up against Jasmine Paolini of Italy in the semifinals.

 

NAVALNYI The mother of the Russian opposition leader, Aleksei Navalnyi, has accused the investigators of planning to bury her son in secret as they have so far refused to hand over his body, Reuters reports. Lyudmila Navalnaya says she was blackmailed and threatened to accept a secret burial. Aleksei Navalnyi died last week at the age of 47 in the arctic penal colony where he was serving his prison sentence. During a court appearance only one day before, Navalnyi looked healthy and in good spirits. According to Navalnyi’s lawyers, the certificate the investigators produced say that he died of natural causes. The international leaders, family members and his Russian supporters have blamed the authorities for his death and some even say he was murdered. We recall that Navalnyi survived an attempted murder in the past, when the Russian secret services had allegedly attempted to poison him with a nerve agent known as Novichok.

 

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