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The US Treasury Department, in a document updating the list of individuals in Russia and Belarus subject to US sanctions, indicated 38 possible spellings of the name of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Options include various forms of transliteration from Russian and Belarusian.
According to Lenta.ru, among the options for the name of the Belarusian president, presented by the US Treasury, there are such as: Lukashenka Alyaksandr Ryhorovich (Lukashenka Aleksandr Ryhoravich), Lukashenko Aliaksandr Hryhoryavic (Lukashenko Aleksandr Khrihoryavich) and Lukashenka Aliaksandr Hryhoryavich (Lukashenka Aleksandr Khryhoryavich).
The document was published on Tuesday on the website of the US Department of the Treasury. 15 new persons have been added to the sanctions list, including the wife of the Belarusian leader Galina Lukashenko.
The measures also include representatives of the Russian military leadership. Under the new US restrictions, some deputy defense ministers of the Russian Federation, as well as the head of the FSMTC, Dmitry Shugaev, and the general director of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, also fell.
What specific restrictions were imposed, has not yet been specified.
Earlier Tuesday, the UK expanded sanctions against Russia, imposing new restrictions on more than 350 Russian individuals and entities. The sanctions affected Viktor Zolotov, Yuri Chaika, Sergei Sobyanin, Konstantin Ernst, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Dmitry Chernyshenko, Andrei Turchak, Sergei Roldugin, Tatyana Navka, Dmitry Peskov, as well as Elizaveta and Nikolai Peskov, as well as Russian propagandists, in including Vladimir Solovyov, Olga Skabeeva, Tigran Keosayan, Roman Babayan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anton Krasovsky, etc. Britain also froze the assets of businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven, they are denied entry into the country.
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Source: Rosbalt
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