Russia bars more UK nationals from country over Navalny

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Russia has decided to expand the number of British nationals barred from entering the country in response to the “unacceptable and unfounded” UK sanctions over the poisoning of top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

In October, the European Union and the UK imposed sanctions on six Russian officials and a state research institute over what German authorities said was a poisoning in Russia with a nerve agent.