The White House stated that Biden discussed with Navalny’s family “serious” U.S. sanctions against Russia, which it will announce on Feb. 23. The sanctions will be “in response to Aleksey’s death, Russia’s repression and aggression, and its brutal and illegal war in Ukraine.” Read also: Lithuania observes minute of silence during Independence Day celebrations to mark Navalny death “The President expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to every…