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Russia Sanctions List - What The West Imposed Over The Ukraine Invasion - Financial Times
Russia Sanctions List - What The West Imposed Over The Ukraine Invasion - Financial Times
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Russia sanctions list: What the west imposed over the Ukraine invasion
Measures put in place by US, UK and EU so far against individuals and companies
Among the individuals placed under sanctions are, from left, Aleksandr Bortnikov, Kirill Shamalov, Sergei Lavrov, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Shoigu and Valery
Gerasimov © FT montage/EPA/Bloomberg/ Getty
The US, UK and EU have adopted sanctions aimed at freezing the assets of President Vladimir
Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in response to the war in Ukraine. They also plan to
place sanctions on the Russian central bank and remove some of the country’s lenders from the
Swift global payments system, in addition to other economic sanctions. Other allies, including
Japan, Canada, Australia and South Korea, have also adopted sanctions.
Here is a list of the main sanctions imposed so far by the US, UK and the EU.
• Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, is also subject to an EU, UK and US asset
freeze for being “responsible for and actively supporting actions undermining the
territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as stability
and security in Ukraine”. He is still allowed to travel.
• Sergei Shoigu, Russian defence minister, and Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of the
Russian security service (FSB), are both on the EU and US travel ban and asset
freeze list.
• Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian armed forces, is now on the UK and US
travel ban and asset freeze list. He was already blacklisted by the EU in 2014.
• Russian security council: Members of the council are on the EU and US travel
ban and asset freeze lists.
• Belarus officials: The EU and the US placed military, government and border
officials from Belarus on their asset freeze and travel ban list for helping to plan and
actively supporting the Russian military offensive against Ukraine.
• Petr Fradkov, head of Promsvyazbank and son of the former head of Russian
foreign intelligence, is on the UK assets freeze and travel ban list.
• Denis Bortnikov, deputy president of Russia’s second-biggest lender VTB and son
of the FSB chief, is blacklisted in the UK, the EU and the US.
• Yury Slyusar, director of United Aircraft Corp, and Elena Georgieva, chair of the
board of Novikombank, a state-owned defence conglomerate, are banned from the
UK.
• Violetta and Lyubov Prigozhina, the mother and the wife of Yevgeny Prigozhin,
who the EU says is responsible for sending Wagner Group mercenaries to Ukraine,
are banned from the EU and will have their assets frozen.
• Sergei Ivanov, a Russian senior official and politician who previously served in the
KGB, and his son, Sergei, chief executive of Russian state-owned diamond mining
company Alrosa and a board member of Gazprombank are both in the US sanctions
list. So are Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russian’s security council, his son,
Andrey, former chief executive of Gazprom Neft, oligarch Igor Sechin and his son
Ivan, deputy department head at Rosneft.
• Swift: A “select” number of Russian banks will be removed from the Swift
international payments system to “ensure that these banks are disconnected from
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the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally”, the US,
UK, Canada and EU said in their joint statement Saturday. The banks are yet to be
identified.
• Sberbank: The US has cut off Russia’s biggest bank and 25 subsidiaries from the
US financial system. The sanctions restrict Sberbank’s access to US dollar
transactions. The financial institution accounts for close to a third of Russia’s
banking system and is very connected to the global financial system.
• VTB Bank: The US and the UK have frozen assets at Russia’s second-largest bank,
which is heavily exposed to western financial systems. This means the bank and its
subsidiaries will not be able to do any business in the UK or US or with their
nationals.
• Alfa-Bank and Bank Otkritie face an EU ban on issuing bonds, shares or loans in
the EU for refinancing, while the US has imposed debt and equity restrictions on
Alfa and full blocking sanctions on Otkritie.
• The EU and the UK have imposed asset freezes on Bank Rossyia and
Promsvyazbank. The US has also imposed full blocking sanctions on
Promsvyazbank.
Companies
UK
EU
• EU companies are banned from doing business with the following state-owned
companies: arms maker Almaz-Antey, truckmaker Kamaz, Novorossiysk
Commercial Sea Port, defence company Rostec, Russian Railways, nuclear
submarine maker Sevmash, hydrocarbons shipping company Sovcomflot and the
country’s largest shipbuilder United Shipbuilding Corporation.
US
In addition to targeting Russia’s largest financial institutions, the US has heavily restricted
companies critical to the country’s economy from raising money through the US market. These
include:
• The world’s largest natural gas company, Gazprom, one of Russia’s largest oil
producers and refiners, Gazprom Neft, oil pipeline company Transneft and one
of Russia’s largest power companies, RusHydro.
• Russia’s largest maritime and freight shipping company, Sovcomflot, and one of
the world’s largest railroad companies, Russian Railways.
Other measures
UK
• Powers to prevent designated banks from accessing sterling and clearing payments
through the UK.
• Prohibiting the export of high-end and critical technical equipment and components
in sectors including electronics, telecommunications and aerospace.
• The territorial sanctions that the UK has imposed on Crimea will be extended to
Donetsk and Luhansk, meaning no UK individual or business can deal with the
territories until Ukraine controls them again.
EU
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• A ban on the sale, supply, transfer or export to Russia of technologies in oil refining
and restrictions for related services.
• An export ban on all aircraft, spare parts and equipment to Russian airlines, as well
as to the Russian space industry. This includes a prohibition on insurance and
reinsurance and maintenance services.
• Diplomats, Russian officials and business people will no longer be able to benefit
from visa facilitation provisions, which allow privileged access to the EU.
US
• The US has restricted the export of high-end US technologies to Russia, targeting its
defence, aerospace and maritime sectors in a bid to deprive its military from western
technology.
• It has also issued broad, sweeping restrictions on products including chips and
computers. Its new measures affect exports to Russia from outside of America if they
are made using US technology.
• UK sanctions
• EU first round of sanctions, EU asset freeze and travel ban, EU economic sanctions
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