US To Match EU Sanctions; FM Lavrov-Russia Will Retaliate

A couple of headlines emerging on social media and wires in relation to US sanctions on Russia over the treatment of political dissident Alexei Navalny.

• Earlier news broke that the announcement of US sanctions on Russia could be expected today, with the most recent headlines quoting an unnamed US official saying that the sanctions are likely to match those imposed by the EU.
• Around the same time, headlines from RIA reporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stating that any US sanctions will be met with retaliation from Russia.
• France's AFP reported that according to unnamed sources in Europe, the EU is set to impose sanctions on the following senior Russian officials: Aleksandr Kalashnikov, federal prisons administrator; Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia; Igor Krasnov, prosecutor-general; and Viktor Zolotov, director of the National Guard.