The United States expanded sanctions against Russia – RBC

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the US Treasury expanded its sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine. Blacklist for the first time added marine vessels

the United States expanded sanctions against Russia in connection with situation in Ukraine. This is stated in the statement of the American Ministry of Finance.

the expanded sanctions list included seven individuals: the President of the National media group Kirill Kovalchuk, the members of the Board of Directors of Joint stock Bank “Russia” Dmitry Lebedev, Michael KLISHIN, Dmitry Mansurov, Mikhail Dedov, Chairman of the Board of Sobinbank Oleg Minaev and businessman Eugene Prigogine.

Also under the sanctions were a number of companies, including “Stroyproekt”, state unitary enterprise “Crimean sea ports”, “Crimean railway”, LLC “Roskhimtreyd”, “Transperant”.

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in addition, in the sanctions list of the newly added ships — oil tankers “Marshal Zhukov” and “Stalingrad”.

the Assets of individuals and organizations who are in the black list will be frozen on U.S. territory, the U.S. is forbidden to have a relationship with them.

In September 2016, the sanctions list published by the Ministry of Commerce of the United States. It came 81 to the 86 names, in this case, 11 of the companies mentioned in the document of the Ministry of trade, has not previously been indicated, the Ministry of Finance. Among the newcomers was “Angstrom M” “Angstrom”, “Angstrom-T”, “foreign economic Association Radioexport”, Perm scientific-industrial instrument making company “Mikron”, JSC NPF “Micran”, NPC Granat, Tekhnopol’.

last week it became known that the European Union agreed on the extension of sanctions against the defense, energy and financial sectors of Russia. As noted earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, the decision is due to the fact that the situation in Ukraine was not achieved meaningful progress, and the main condition of lifting the sanctions is the implementation of the Minsk agreements — has still not been implemented. The EU sanctions will be extended for another six months.

the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia said that the decision of the EU was not a surprise. In Russian depodesta noted that sanctions against Russia “became the end in itself” for the European Union that “in the absence of other good examples of wants in every way to demonstrate their proverbial unity at least in this area.”