Sanctions against Russia
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Novichok attack on Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, in August
2020.
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Cyber sanctions regime
Several Russian military intelligence officers and units of the GRU have been
sanctioned under the UK's cyber sanctions regime for cyberattacks on the
offices of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2018
and the German Parliament in 2015.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 15 October 2020 and Press release,
August 2021
1 Further reading
• House of Commons Library, Magnitsky legislation, July 2020
• House of Commons Library, Sanctions against Russia: In brief, April 2018
• House of Commons Library, Sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, March
2015
• House of Commons Library, Ukraine: Towards a frozen conflict?,
September 2014
