US and EU impose raft of new sanctions on Russia

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Russian president Vladimir Putin and defence minister Sergei Shoigu take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden on Defender of the Fatherland Day, in Moscow on Friday. Photograph: Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal colony. The US Treasury Department plans on Friday to impose more than 500...