US targets Russia with additionally 500 recent sanctions
These include measures against Russia's main card payment system, financial and military institutions, and officials involved in Navalny's imprisonment.
The EU has also announced new sanctions on access to military technology.
The measures mark a week since Navalny suddenly died in an Arctic Circle jail.
US President Joe Biden, who met the critic's widow and daughter in San Francisco on Thursday, has said there can be "no doubt" the Russian president was to blame for his death.
But it is unclear what impact the sanctions will have on Russia's economy.
The newly-announced US measures also include nearly 100 firms and individuals which will also face export restrictions.
Others target the state-owned operator of Mir, Russia's main payment system, which has become more prominent since Visa and Mastercard suspended their services there.
Companies involved in powering Russia's war effort, developing the country's future energy production and its cooperation with Iran over drones will also be hit.
More than two dozen entities outside of Russia - including people in China, the UAE, Vietnam and Lichtenstein - have also been sanctioned, accused of being connected to businesses that send materials to Russia's military.
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