The widow of Russian politician Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, criticized the authorities of the European Union after the EU court lifted sanctions imposed on Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory.
"I would like to ask European politicians: 'What has changed since you imposed sanctions on Russian oligarchs?'" Navalnaya wrote on Twitter on April 10.
Neither Fridman nor Aven made any statements against the war, nor made any attempts to end it - they simply hired very expensive lawyers and found good lobbyists. Antagonistic Russians in Europe face many problems, but for Russian oligarchs, everything is easily solved with money.
According to Navalnaya, by the third year of the war in Ukraine, "there has been no concrete mechanism for imposing sanctions, nor a way out of them." She believes that decisions are made on the principle of "who can outlast whom."
Yulia Navalnaya called the decision to lift sanctions on Fridman and Aven "harmful."
"It will only weaken the anti-war movement and help Putin stay in power longer," she concluded.
It was previously reported that the EU court granted the lawsuit of the founders of the Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, asking to lift personal sanctions against them.
Fridman and Aven remain under sanctions from the United Kingdom and the United States.
