EU imposes sanctions against Deripaska, Gref and 214 other Russians

Boris and Igor Rotenberg, editor-in-chiefs of Komsomolskaya Pravda and Moskovsky Komsomolets Vladimir Sungorkin and Pavel Gusev fell under the restrictions,Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and others Oleg Deripaska

The European Union extended sanctions against Russia on Friday. In total, the list includes 216 individuals, including the head of Sberbank German Gref and businessman Oleg Deripaska.

Other entrepreneurs added to the list:

Said Kerimov, who previously controlled PJSC Polyus; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aznar company, investor Farhad Ahmedov; CEO of Surgutneftegaz Vladimir Bogdanov; Grigory Berezkin, owner of the ESN group of companies; Boris and Igor Rotenberg; CEO of Ozon Alexander Shulgin; Director General of the United Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slyusar.

Sanctions have also been imposed against media managers:

Sergey Mikhailov, director general of the TASS news agency; General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Oleg Dobrodeev; editor-in-chief and owner of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Pavel Gusev; editor-in-chief and general director of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin; President of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov.

Also under the EU sanctions were the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov and members of the governments of the DPR (Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir Ruschak, Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities Sergei Naumets, Minister of Transport Dmitry Podlipanov, Minister of Finance Yana Chausova and others) and LPR (head of government Sergei Kozlov, his First Deputy Yury Govtvin, Deputies Elena Kostenko and Anna Todorova and others).

In addition, Brussels imposed restrictions on Alexei Filatov, head of the Russian president's department for border cooperation, and Igor Maslov, head of the president's department for interregional and cultural relations with foreign countries.

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Soadat Narziyeva and Gulbahor Ismailova, the sisters of USM Holdings founder Alisher Usmanov, and the wife of billionaire Gennady Timchenko, Elena Timchenko, were on the updated EU sanctions list. Usmanov and Timchenko themselves are already under sanctions.

The EU, following the US and the UK, imposed sanctions against Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova. The first holds the post of deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems of Moscow State University and manages the National Intellectual Development Foundation and the Center for National Intellectual Reserve at Moscow State University. Reuters and Bloomberg previously called Tikhonova the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maria Vorontsova is an endocrinologist, a member of the board for the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies, a leading researcher at the National Research Center for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Society of Young Endocrinologists. The BBC Russian service, Reuters and New Times magazine called her Putin's eldest daughter.

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This information has not received official confirmation or refutation. In December 2015, during a press conference, Putin emphasized that he would not discuss his family, including because of security issues.

After the introduction of sanctions by the United States against Tikhonova and Vorontsova, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, answering a question from journalists, said that "in any case, the ongoing line on the application of some kind of restrictions to family members speaks for itself." “It is unlikely that such steps, such approaches need some kind of assessment. This is something that is difficult to understand and explain, but, unfortunately, we have to deal with such opponents, ”TASS quoted a Kremlin representative as saying.

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The European Union also extended sanctions against Otkritie, VTB, Novikombank and Sovcombank, freezing their assets and banning transactions with them. In addition, the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant, Ruselectronics, the Kalashnikov Concern, NPK Engineering Technologies and several other companies fell under the sanctions.

On April 8, the EU introduced the fifth package of sanctions against Russia. It involves a ban on the purchase of Russian coal, a ban on ships flying the Russian flag to enter the ports of the European Union, restrictions on the transportation of goods through the territory of the association and new export restrictions.