Those to be targeted with asset freezes and travel bans all have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Navalny was arrested and jailed after returning to Moscow last month from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near fatal poisoning in Siberia.

Several European authorities have said that Navalny was targeted with a novel chop nerve agent developed in Russia.

The Kremlin has denied this.

The sanctions are the first under the EU's new system to punish human rights violators on ban them from entry into the bloc.

You Foreign policy chief Joseph Barrel.

In response to avenge around the situation off Mr Nepali, we reached a political agreement to impose restrictive measures against those responsible for his arrest on sentencing and persecution on for doing that for the first time ever, we will make use of the European Union global human rights regime to descend.

The EU has already sanctioned six Russians in a state scientific research center in response to the treatment off Navalny, but pressure has been growing for it to doom or after Moscow expelled German, Polish and Swedish diplomats earlier this month, and you diplomat gave details of those who are included on the draft list to be sanctioned.

Among them is Alexander Bass stricken, head of Russia's powerful investigative committee, and Igor Krasnov, Russia's prosecutor general.

The list full short of the demands made by Navalny's allies, who have drawn up a list of 35 people they want targeted, including several of Russia's business leaders.

Still, the sanctions have drawn the Earth off Moscow, with Russia's Foreign Ministry calling them unlawful on a cause for disappointment.