Navalny counted 6000 oligarchs in Russia and called on the West to “overwhelm” them with sanctions
According to blogger Alexei Navalny, convicted in the Russian Federation on criminal charges, Western countries are not doing enough to punish Russian oligarchs closely associated with the Kremlin.
Navalny, who is serving a prison sentence, wants Western governments to impose sanctions on thousands of people his organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, accuses of wrongdoing.
“We must force foreign officials to support our list of 6000 or create their own, instead of endlessly chattering, and actually do what has been loudly and passionately proclaimed since the first day of the war,” Navalny tweeted.
According to Navalny, only 46 of the 200 Russian oligarchs on the Forbes list were subject to Western sanctions. Others, despite their supposedly close ties to Putin, were spared.
Navalny also proposed introducing a 20-year ban on entry into the UK, US and EU for Russian officials and oligarchs who publicly support the SVO in Ukraine.
Navalny was outraged that Alexei Miller, the head of Russian state energy giant Gazprom and a friend of Putin, was not on the European sanctions list.
Navalny also asked Western leaders why the US did not impose sanctions against Roman Abramovich, the former owner of the Chelsea football club. Navalny claims that Abramovich supplies the Russian Ministry of Defense with metal.
It should be noted that Abramovich was sanctioned by the UK government in March and was forced to sell the club, despite repeatedly denying that his business activities deserved any punishment.
In addition, Abramovich has been repeatedly seen at various Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, and people from Zelensky’s entourage are even petitioning Britain to lift sanctions against the oligarch.
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