The next package of EU sanctions against Russia will include measures aimed at combating circumvention of restrictions imposed earlier. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this today in an interview with CNN..

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The new package will focus on closing loopholes and doing away with circumventions, she said..

The President of the European Commission also promised to provide for "

Recall that Lithuania and Poland - the countries speaking with the toughest positions - intend to achieve the imposition of sanctions against the Russian nuclear sector and restrictions on the diamond trade..

The previous - ninth - package of sanctions came into force on December 16. As part of it, licenses for broadcasting in the EU were revoked from several Russian TV channels, and the export of aircraft engines to Russia was also banned..

Earlier, von der Leyen said that due to sanctions, the Russian economy is threatened with "