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Top EU envoy to visit Russia as bloc weighs sanctions

BRUSSELS, Jan 25, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell
will visit Moscow early next month to press the Kremlin on the arrest of
Alexei Navalny, with the bloc weighing fresh sanctions, European diplomats
said Monday.

“Borrell will go to Moscow in early February to deliver a clear message
from the EU,” a senior diplomat told AFP, despite earlier calls from several
member states for the trip to be scrapped.

BSS/AFP/MSY/1900 hrs