Anti-Kremlin Russians collateral victims of sanctions against Moscow

A paradox indeed. By sanctioning the Russian financial system, the European Union has ended up also penalizing Russians who, anti-Kremlin and anti-war, left their country after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and have since lived in exile in Europe.
“A little-known problem with devastating consequences ,” warns Janna Nemtsova, daughter of Boris Nemtsov, one of the opposition leaders, assassinated on February 27, 2015, shot in the back on the bridge spanning the Moskva River, opposite the Kremlin. Even today, he remains an influential liberal figure among Russian dissidents abroad. To preserve her father's memory, Janna Nemtsova created the Foundation for Freedom, based in Berlin, which defends democracy and human rights. She has just launched a new campaign: to demonstrate “how European Union sanctions against Russian financial infrastructure have allowed the freezing of private capital belonging to individuals not subject to sanctions . ”