Lithuania bars Kadyrov under Magnitsky law

Lithuania has issued its first blacklist of 49 Russians banned for allegedly violating human rights or engaging in corruption and money laundering under its new Magnitsky law.

The blacklist was published by Lithuania's Interior Ministry on January 15 and included the leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Also targeted on the Lithuanian blacklist are Russian Investigative Committee chief Aleksandr Bastrykin, deputy head of the Interior Ministry's Investigative Committee Oleg Logunov and judges Yelena Stashina, Aleksey Krivoruchko, Svetlana Ukhnalyova and Sergei Podoprigorov.