volkoff was here in brussels advocating for he spoke with foreign ministers leading up to this meeting and he and his supporters had a list of 35 names so they're certain to be disappointed about 4 names but he said this is still a step in the right direction let's listen to what mr volkoff had to say ahead of the meeting here that from the sure that this not going to be the last step so even if it's a little even if the rules will be like a little bit disappointing for us it's well the 1st time personal some sanctions are applied as regards to human rights violations it opens a very poor 1st. own this was your sense a very clear message to. people who walk part of this regime and maybe this will contribute at least a small crack to a small split prisms the regime and people start to feel that being close to putin is not as safe and pretty anymore as it used to be right terry of course not so long ago we heard from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he said if the e.u. makes good on his threat to impose sanctions which it which it is doing right now we will break off ties with

volkoff was here in brussels advocating for he spoke with foreign ministers leading up to this meeting and he and his supporters had a list of 35 names so they're certain to be disappointed about 4 names but he said this is still a step in the right direction let's listen to what mr volkoff had to say ahead of the meeting be a different machine or that this not going to be the last step so even if it's a little even if the world will be like a little bit disappointed for us it's well the 1st time personal some sanctions are applied as regards to human rights violations it opens the very 1st. own this was europe its sense a very clear message do people walk part of this regime and maybe this will contribute at least a small crack to a small split prisms the regime and people start to feel that being close to putin is not as safe and pretty anymore as it used to be all right terry of course not so long ago we've heard from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he said if the e.u. makes good on his threat to impose sanctions would it which it is doing right now we will break off ties

and today we talk to the we talked to novell and its allies we caught up with his chief of staff volkoff and we asked him if that is the right decision to impose targeted sanctions and here is what he told that's not our opinions the strongest answer is it could be given would be personal targeted sanctions against putin closest allies the most important parts of the repressive machine that he is built on like sectoral sanctions against russian economy this person also mentions can be divided by russian propaganda who are for 0 free because every time like russia is sanctioned is a concrete proposal only as a party so you can blame it received on you in the u.s. and nato whatever they still even more because they have an explanation to provide russian. ok alexander so we know clearly there what election of all these team wants on the other hand you know russia has threatened to break off ties with the european union if there are more sanctions is that realistic i mean from the view in brussels what are you hearing about what russia's likely reaction will be here. well i think that brusse

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shown lights for mobile phones the coordinated action came in response to a call from a man called volkoff now based in lithuania he's a close ally of alexei navalny he wants russians to copy tactics used by pro-democracy activists in neighboring better roofs our force is of the are more. sophisticated than them that the more creative and we have to think about other forms of protest and the over the investment sums and focal verge people to post pictures of sunday's gatherings all social media using the slogan love is stronger than fear the aim was to avoid large demonstrations of the type that seen thousands of people arrested across russia in recent weeks among them alexei navalny his wife who's now reportedly in germany and his spokes person kira yarmulkes they were among the women activists being honored in the 2nd city sent petersburg around 100 women formed a human chain near a monument to victims of political repression which i think it will have an impact at least will show the world that we're here that those people are not alone that we stand in solidarity with them in the valle

that valentine's day protest was called by leo need volkoff one of alexian of all his closest allies did obvious russian service spoke with bulk of about what the protest movements next step might be our strategy is to be flexible and to be smart and to be smarter isn't put in and. to improvise and to do death things that will help our supporters through the organism cells and do not. yield to it to do business strategy of fear and smear campaign that said i don't want and i can't see anything specific about the form a lot it will be always something new something different our strategy did not change for many years our strategy is to increase pressure on protein and to build up to to let our support base for all to increase the number of our supporters troops ever seen what we're doing and so far we've been very successful i think will remain quite successful in the future. that was no need of speaking to us a short while ago let's get a round up now of some other headlines from around the world the west african nation of guinea has declared a new ebola epidemic after an outbreak ne

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