Japanese sanctions affected 20 Russians and equipment for oil refining

20 Russians and 12 citizens of Belarus were subject to restrictions. Japan also imposed a ban on the export of oil refining equipment to Russia.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry has imposed sanctions on 20 Russian citizens, we are talking about freezing assets, according to the agency's website. In addition, Tokyo banned the export of oil refining equipment to Russia.

The restrictions affected officials, politicians, deputies:

First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Alexei Gromov; First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko; Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak; press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov; the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov; Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Neverov; Vice Speaker of the State Duma Alexander Babakov; Aleksey Pushkov, head of the Federation Council commission on information policy.

The head of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev, businessmen Alisher Usmanov, Gennady Timchenko, Evgeny Prigozhin and members of his family, Boris Rotenberg and his son Roman and Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor fell under the sanctions.

The measures also affected TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov and Dmitry Utkin, who is named in the document as the founder and commander of Wagner's private military company. The PMC itself was under sanctions, as well as the Internet Research Agency (the so-called troll factory).