UPDATE: US to expand anti-Russian export restrictions over Navalny case
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WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce intends to expand export restrictions against Russia from Thursday due to the poisoning and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the authority said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Department of Commerce will expand limitations of exports to Russia because of the chemical weapons poisoning, the authority said.
As seen by PRIME in a document, released on the website on the U.S. Department of the State, Russia is to be included in the list of states, to and from which it is prohibited to export and import weapons.
Cooperation in the space industry is an exclusion from the export restrictions, and cooperation in the area of commercial space travel and civil aviation is possible until September 1.
Earlier in March, the E.U. and the U.S. introduced first sanctions linked to the case.
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