The European Union (EU) added several oligarchs and the president’s spokesman RussianVladimir Putin, to the black list of personalities sanctioned with a freezing of their assets and the prohibition of their entry as a result of the war against Ukraine.
Six oligarchs, several personalities close to the Russian president -including his spokesman-, and a dozen journalists appear on that list of 26 names approved by the Member States and published this Monday in the Official Journal of the EU. Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were included in the list last Friday.
The EU sanctioned, among others, Igor Seshin, head of the Rosneft oil group; Nikolay Tokarev, Chairman of Transneft; Alisher Usmanov, a businessman close to the Russian president; the bankers Petro Oleovich Aven and Mikhail Fridman, shareholder and founder of the Alpha Group conglomerate, and the cellist and businessman Serguei Pavlovich Rolduguin.
A first list of those sanctioned, published hours after Russia launched the invasion of Ukraine, included 23 personalities, including the Russian defense minister and military chiefs, the head of the Kremlin administration, the head of the RT network and the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for her involvement in the recognition of the breakaway regions of Ukraine.
Three banks, a company and 351 members of the Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) who had voted in favor of Russia recognizing the independence of the separatist territories in eastern Ukraine had also been inscribed on that blacklist.
Source: Gestion
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