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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Cooper condemns ‘desperate’ Russian sanctions on UK schoolboy and journalists

The Foreign Secretary condemned the sanctions as ‘desperate’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Yvette Cooper condemned Russian sanctions on British media and a 17-year-old schoolboy as “desperate” and “appalling” and said the Government would be stepping up its own measures against Moscow.

Britons including Alexander Browder, a teenager who has conducted research into alleged Moscow-backed cryptocurrency laundering, and The i Paper journalist Richard Holmes have been banned from entering the country.

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