On Wednesday 9 November, the EU added six parliamentarians from the Russian Duma – Ruslan Ismailovich Balbek, Konstantin Mikhailovich Bakharev, Dmitry Anatolievich Belik, Andrei Dmitrievich Kozenko, Svetlana Borisovna Savchenko and Pavel Valentinovich Shperov – to the list of people subject to restrictive measures as a result of action compromising Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence (see EUROPE 11663).
These measures – a freezing of assets and an EU travel...