Navalny stated that the West has solely focused 46 of the Forbes record of Russia’s 200 richest individuals.

Moscow:

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday referred to as for systematic punitive measures towards Russian oligarchs supporting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his army operation in Ukraine.

In a prolonged social media publish, he stated that Western sanctions — by the United States, European Union or the United Kingdom — have solely focused 46 of the Forbes record of Russia’s 200 richest individuals.

“That doesn’t sound very much like an all-out war on Putin’s oligarchs to me,” Navalny stated.

According to him, the top of Russian gasoline large Gazprom, Alexei Miller, was nonetheless not on the EU sanctions record.

Navalny stated that famed Russian oligarch — and former Chelsea soccer membership proprietor — Roman Abramovich had up to now escaped US sanctions, regardless of his firms “supplying metal to the Russian defence ministry”.

“We can’t expect a split among Putin’s elite on the issue of war if, despite a lot of chatter, we still don’t use the stick against them, while allowing them to keep all their carrots,” he stated.

“I call on all voters and legislators in the EU, UK, US and Canada to put pressure on the executive branch and force them to stop engaging in demagoguery and urgently get down to massive personal sanctions against Putin’s thieves.”

He additionally steered that the European Union, United States and United Kingdom ban anybody supporting the Russian army offensive in Ukraine from their soil “for 20 years”.

Navalny is serving a nine-year jail sentence in a penal colony close to the Russian city of Vladimir on embezzlement fees that he and his allies say are politically motivated.

But he has continued to go on messages to his legal professionals.

Navalny, 46, rose to prominence as an anti-corruption blogger and, earlier than his imprisonment, mobilised anti-government protests throughout Russia.

In 2020, he barely survived a poisoning assault that he has blamed on the Russian authorities, however wherein the Kremlin has denied any involvement.

He was arrested final 12 months on his return from therapy in Germany, sparking widespread condemnation overseas.

His anti-corruption organisation has drafted a listing of greater than 6,000 officers it accuses of backing the Russian operation in neighbouring Ukraine.

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