Lithuania froze on Wednesday the bank accounts of a company linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, effectively blocking the firm’s 2.9 million euros (US$3.19 million). The move came after OCCRP’s Lithuanian partner Siena revealed UAB PhosAgro Baltic’s links to the Kremlin.

Exiled Kremlin critic and former tycoon Mikhail Kodorkovsky said he was ready “to relocate” his media projects out of Russia after Moscow declared several European civil society and educational groups, including his, “undesirable on Russian territory.”