At the last moment, Orbán's government went against the grain.
Hungary refused to block the extension of sanctions EU against Russia. This is written by RND with reference to the spokeswoman of the Czech Republic, which currently chairs the EU Council.
According to her, the decision-making process was successfully completed on Wednesday, and now it will be published in the Official Journal of the EU .
We are talking about the six-month extension of restrictions on more than 1,200 people who support Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy towards Ukraine. Sanctions include freezing the assets of these persons and preventing them from entering EU countries. If Hungary continued to block the extension of the sanctions, they would expire tomorrow, September 15.
According to EU diplomats, last week Hungary insisted on the lifting of restrictive measures against three Russian oligarchs and threatened to block the process. continuation of other EU sanctions packages against Russia. In particular, Orban's government wanted to remove Alisher Usmanov, Petr Aven and Viktor Rashnikov from restrictions.
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Earlier it was reported that , that a group of Russian oligarchs is trying to get rid of European Union sanctions through court. In the lawsuits, Roman Abramovich, Petro Aven, Alisher Usmanov and Mykhailo Fridman claim that the restrictive measures “restrict their rights”
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