22.03.2022.

Nearly 1,000 people and more than 300 companies in Russia are under sanctions

Officials, oligarchs, people from the media… Who is on the sanctions lists of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan and the EU?

After the invasion of Russian troops on the territory of sovereign Ukraine on February 24, 2022, numerous countries imposed sanctions on individuals and companies from Russia involved in military aggression.

The main type of restrictive measures is the blockade of the property of natural and legal persons. Restrictive measures do not have a fixed deadline.

Who was under sanctions

Just over 900 people were included in the six analyzed lists. However, it should be noted that some individuals and legal entities are available on several lists at the same time.

The number of natural and legal persons under sanctions on each list is different, depending on the country that imposed them. These are mostly Russian citizens, current and former deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, members of the Council of the Federation of Russia.

Responsible deputies and officials

In the period from February 24 to March 11, more than 300 representatives of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who voted for the recognition of DNR and LNR, were included in the lists of sanctions of the EU, Canada, Australia and Great Britain.

On March 9, the EU added 146 more members of the Russian Federation Council to the list of sanctions, which ratified "Agreements on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the DNR and between the Russian Federation and the LNR."

Personal sanctions were also imposed on Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They are included in all analyzed lists of sanctions, except the list of the European Union.

The first sanctions were imposed by the United States and Great Britain on February 25, then Canada and Australia on February 28, and on March 1, the sanctions were imposed by Japan.

In addition to the list of Great Britain, the analyzed lists of sanctions also included the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu.

The lists of sanctions of the EU, Canada, Australia and Great Britain include the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Alexei Yurievich Chernjak and Leonid Ivanovich Babashov.

The first was once registered in Ukraine as a natural person-entrepreneur, the second is now a member of the board of two companies registered in Crimea - PE "SOVA - KB" and PE "BLIK", and he is also a natural person-entrepreneur.

Russian oligarchs

In addition to Russian government officials, the list of sanctions also includes Russian oligarchs:

- Mikhail Friedman (from 28.02 on the list of EU sanctions, from 14.03 on the list of sanctions of Australia);

- Alisher Usmanov (on all analyzed lists);

- Alexei Mordashov (from 28.02 on the list of EU sanctions, from 14.03 on the list of sanctions of Australia);

- Oleg Deripaska (from 06.03 on the list of sanctions of Canada, from 10.03 on the list of sanctions of Great Britain);

- Roman Abramovich (from 10.03 on the lists of sanctions of Great Britain and Canada, from 14.03 - Australia, from 15.02 - EU);

- Putin's closest allies are the brothers Arkady and Boris Rothenberg;

- Yuri Kovalchuk, as well as members of their families, Gennady Timchenko (from 22.02 on the list of sanctions of Great Britain, from 28.02 on the list of EU sanctions, from 08.03 on the list of sanctions of Japan);

- Yevgeny Prigogine and members of his family

It should be noted that Mikhail Friedman is officially listed as the owner of 10 Ukrainian companies, including JSC "Alfa-Bank", PJSC "IC" Alfa-Insurance ", LLC" Alfa-Leasing Ukraine ". Oleg Deripaska is currently not on the list of owners of any

Ukrainian company however, according to media reports, Mykolayiv Alumina Plant LLC is still part of the RUSAL group, of which it is a co-owner.

Sanctions for LDNR, RB

The Japanese government has expanded the list of sanctions to more than 50 members of the so-called "LNR" and "DPR" governments, as well as the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and his sons, Dmitry and Viktor.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, is also under sanctions. In total, about 50 Belarusian citizens were included in the analyzed lists.

In addition to the above, the list includes co-owners of Belarusian companies Bremino Group, Synesis Group and SOKHRA, Alexander Zaitsev, Alexei Oleksin and Mykola Vorobey, as well as more than 30 Belarusian legal entities.

Journalists and TV presenters

The analyzed lists of sanctions also included journalists and TV presenters:

- TV presenter on the Russian channel "Russia 1" Vladimir Solovyov (EU, Canada, Australia and Japan);

- Editor-in-Chief of RT Margarita Simonyan (EU, Canada);

- Head of the propaganda news agency NewFront Konstantin Knirik (USA, EU, Canada), who is registered in Ukraine as a natural person-entrepreneur, and is also a member and head of LLC "PR AGENTSTVO" TM ";

- General Director of the First Channel of Russia Konstantin Ernst (Canada);

- Belarusian journalists Igor Tur and Lyudmila Gladkaya (Canada).

Canada also added four Ukrainian citizens to its sanctions list on March 24. Among them is Taras Romanovich Kozak, the People's Deputy of Ukraine, who is already on the lists of US and Ukrainian sanctions. It has stakes in more than 20 Ukrainian companies, including 112, ZIK and NewsOne.

Sanctions are also targeted at Oleh Voloshin, Ukraine's MP, Volodymyr Sivkovich, a former Ukrainian MP, and Volodymyr Oliynik, a former Ukrainian deputie.

Sanctioned companies

The total number of legal entities on the sanctions list is more than 300. The analyzed lists of sanctions included Russian banks, including Promsvjazbank, Genbank, Industrial Savings Bank, Novikombank and VTB Bank, which is a shareholder of JSC "VTB Bank" and the corporation "WEB.RF" .

The United States has also added to the sanctions list a significant number of companies affiliated with the above-mentioned banks, including Ukraine's JSC Prominvestbank.

The main type of restrictive measures on all analyzed lists of sanctions is the freezing of assets of legal entities. However, US sanctions also impose sectoral restrictions on dozens of legal entities.

For example, Sberbank of Russia, which is a shareholder of the Ukrainian International Reserve Bank JSC (former Sberbank JSC), is prohibited from opening and maintaining a correspondent account or current account.

Also on February 24, the United States extended sanctions to PJSC Gazprom.

In addition to the freezing of the company's assets, a ban on transactions, financing and other arrears with a maturity of more than 14 days or new equity, if issued on March 22, has been added and after that date.

Gazprom has a stake in the Ukrainian companies GAZPROM ZBUT UKRAINE LLC and the INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAS TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF UKRAINE. Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chairman, has also come under sanctions from Britain, Canada and Australia.

In addition to companies in the banking sector, on March 10, the Canadian government added about 30 Russian companies operating in the machine industry, including aircraft production, as well as the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to the list of sanctions.

On March 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on about 90 Russian companies, including a ban on all economic ties with 10 major Russian defense companies and oil and gas companies, but its restrictions allow it to buy oil and gas when needed.

Restrictions for other companies on the list relate to the prohibition of direct or indirect sale, delivery, transfer or export of dual-use items and technologies.