Navalny case is a local issue: Russia

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Tuesday it would not heed calls by some Western countries for sanctions over Russia’s detention of poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny because his case was a purely domestic matter. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia want the European Union to respond with sanctions against Moscow. “We hear these statements, but we cannot and don’t plan to take these into account,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.