On Monday 23 February, the Council of the EU imposed restrictive measures on eight natural persons responsible for serious human rights violations, the repression of civil society and the democratic opposition, and attacks on democracy and the Rule of law in Russia.
These include two judges, Eva Giunter and Andrey Shibakov, a prosecutor, Sergei Filichev, and an investigator, Ilya Pleshkov, all of whom, according to the EU Council, were involved in politically motivated trials and...