The United States imposed sanctions against Russian geological universities and research institutes

The United States has imposed sanctions against Russian universities and research institutes that specialize in the extraction of natural resources, according to the website of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury.

The sanctions list includes St. Petersburg Mining University and its rector Vladimir Litvinenko, Russian State University of Oil and Gas. THEM. Gubkina, Russian State Geological Prospecting University. Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Grozny State Petroleum Technological University. Academician Mikhail Millionshchikov, Almetyevsk State Oil Institute.

A number of research institutes also fell under restrictive measures, including Gazprom VNIIGAZ, the Research Institute of Polymers. Academician Valentin Kargin, Institute of Petroleum Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as a number of service companies and firms involved in attracting investments in the industry.

All of them are included in the SDN (Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) sanctions list. With organizations that have fallen into it, US citizens and legal entities are prohibited from doing business .

The US has announced a new package of sanctions just as the G7 summit is taking place in Japan. Washington also imposed EXPORT restrictions on 71 organizations - 69 Russian companies and two companies from Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. In addition, the measures affected the export of more than 1.2 thousand goods to RUSSIA and Belarus, including building materials, fabrics, paper and equipment for the food industry.

Great Britain also announced new sanctions within the framework of the summit . Its restrictive measures affected 86 Russian citizens and companies, including organizations controlled by Rosatom, Tinkoff Bank and Rosbank, AFK Sistema, Severstal, Polyus.

Russian authorities consider Western sanctions illegal. The Kremlin stressed that these measures would not change Moscow's position. President Vladimir Putin noted that the West failed to "crumple the Russian economy with a swoop." According to him, the sanctions imposed by Western countries are "crazy and thoughtless" and damage "the global economy as a whole." “Therefore, those who do this harm themselves in the end,” the president emphasized.