On Thursday, 10 June, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell denounced, on behalf of the EU, the decision handed down by a Moscow court the previous day to label Alexei Navalny’s organisations as ‘extremist groups’.
This ruling renders members of these organisations ineligible for election, and these individuals also risk heavy prison sentences.
According to the EU, the ruling “marks the most serious effort to date by the Russian...