In the United States expanded the list of Russian companies have fallen under the sanctions – RBC

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The US commerce Department posted a list of companies which will be imposed restrictions on the export from the United States. It came as the Russian companies and companies registered in Asia

Just a list, which is posted for review on the website Federal Register and will be published on Wednesday, including 81 company under the 86 names. Most of them were in the sanctions list of the US Treasury Department from 1 September. However, the 11 companies mentioned in the document, the Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Finance has not previously indicated

In this list were:. “Angstrom M”, “Å”, “Angstrom-T”, “Foreign Trade Association Radioexport” Perm scientific industrial Instrument company, “Micron”, JSC APF “Micran” SPC “Pomegranate”, “Technopole».

also on the list were companies Giovan Ltd and Technopole Ltd, whose addresses are listed in India and Hong Kong.

DOC explained the introduction of the 11 companies in the list so that they work in the “Russian arms sector or related sectors of the logistics.” The legal basis for the introduction of the companies named in the list of decree 13661 US President Barack Obama on the “Crimean” sanctions.

Adding to the Entity List list includes the US Department of Commerce particularly hard mode to US export controls. If someone wants to legally sell the company from the list of any “sensitive” goods of US origin, the US Department of Commerce will deny a license to supply. Practically, this means a ban on the supply of any product or software of US origin product that is subject to US export controls (Export Administration Regulation). The regulations also prohibit the re-export and transfer within Russia such goods, that is, to observe the restrictions required to any company, regardless of nationality or country of dispatch, if the product is of American origin.

The largest enterprises, which the United States banned the export of technology, are Zelenograd a manufacturer of integrated circuits “Angstrom”, a group of “Micron”, Tomsk scientific and production company “Micran».

«Angstrom-M” and “Angstrom-T” are included in Zelenograd holding “Angstrom”, according to the company website . In 2011, a shareholder of one of the structures “Angstrom” declared himself a former Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman. Now he owns OOO “Angstrom Group”, which plans to buy back 50% of the plant of microelectronics “Angstrom” (FAS in late August allowed to do so). Reiman heads the board of directors “Angstrom-T”, which since 2008 had planned to start production of chips 130-90 nm technology based on AMD American equipment. Production was opened in August 2016

Another Zelenograd company, which came under the Ministry of Trade US sanctions, -. “Micron”, belongs to a group of RTI, part of AFK “Sistema” Vladimir Yevtushenko. The “Micron”, which, according to its own data (.pdf), occupies 21% of the Russian market of microelectronics and is a major supplier of SIM-cards for Russian telecom operators, has an office in the United States – Mikron America Inc. (Colorado).