EU puts sanctions on Putin’s allies

The EU yesterday extended sanctions to encompass close allies of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, The sanctions now include the deputy prime minister and the head of a Russian news agency yesterday, as the 28 member states of the European Union signed an integration pact with Ukraine.Among the 12 individuals targeted in the EU’s new sanctions list are the head of the Rossiya Segodnya state news agency,Dmitry Kiselyov, The EU considers Mr. Kiseyov a “central figure of the government propaganda machine supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.