EU sanctions Russia's VK Company for helping expose Putin's critics

The European Union has sanctioned VK Company, which dominates Russia's online sphere, for colluding with the Kremlin to identify critics of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and curtail access to independent sources of information.

VK Company runs VKontakte, the country's most popular social media site. Often described as "the Russian Facebook", it has an estimated 70 million users.