European liberals: Putin got a yellow card (Euro Lib-Dem warning to Russia)

The Liberal Democrat faction in the European Parliament has warned Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about possible sanctions from the EU. The recent resolution on Russian human rights violations in the European Parliament “is the diplomatic equivalent to a football referee using his yellow card,” said the open letter to Putin, published on the eve of his visit to Brussels. Liberal Democrat leader Guy Verhofstadt and his colleague Christina Ojuland, the keynote speaker on Russia, signed the letter. “Continued violations of human rights, political interference in the judicial process and the murder or disappearances of critics and journalists in recent...