Germany to propose new sanctions against Russia after death of Alexei Navalny

Tributes have been paid and a vigil held for Alexei Navalny outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters

Germany has said it is proposing a new batch of sanctions against Russia over the death of Alexei Navalny as EU ministers met his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, in Brussels.

“We have seen the brutal force with which the Russian president represses his own citizens who take to the streets to demonstrate for freedom or write about it in newspapers,” the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said on Monday. “We will propose new sanctions in light of the death of Alexei Navalny.”