The United States, which does not agree with Russia's actions during the Ukrainian crisis, has imposed sanctions on high-ranking Russian politicians. The restrictions include, in particular, a ban on entry into the United States and the blocking of assets and property. The list includes 11 people, including Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev, State Duma deputies Elena Mizulina and Leonid Slutsky, and senator Andrey Klishas. The United States also imposed sanctions against Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov and Chairman of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian officials whom they consider guilty of "undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine." The list of officials against whom the EU imposed sanctions included MPs State Duma Leonid Slutsky, Sergei Mironov, Sergei Zheleznyak, senators Andrei Klishas, ​​Viktor Ozerov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Vladimir Dzhabarov, Evgeny Bushmin, Alexander Totoonov, Oleg Panteleev, commanders of the southern and western military districts, Colonel General Alexander Galkin and Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, and also commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko. Sanctions were also imposed on Prime Minister of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Rustam Temirgaliev, Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov, Vice Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Sergei Tsekov, Advisor to the Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Yuri Zherebtsov, Mayor of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly, head of the Crimean Service the security of Petr Zima and the former commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky. There are 21 people on the list in total.

Canadian authorities have imposed economic sanctions and visa restrictions on 10 high-ranking representatives of Russia and Crimea. The list includes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Glazyev, Assistant to the Head of State Vladislav Surkov, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​as well as deputies Elena Mizulina and Leonid Slutsky and Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.

The American list was supplemented with the names of 19 more Russian officials, parliamentarians and businessmen. The list includes presidential aide Andrei Fursenko, head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov and his first deputy Alexei Gromov, leader of the Just Russia party Sergei Mironov, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, head of the GRU Igor Sergun, head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin and director of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov . Sanctions were also imposed on Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Zheleznyak and Presidential Affairs Manager Vladimir Kozhin, businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, the list includes members of the Federation Council Yevgeny Bushmin, Vladimir Dzhabarov, Viktor Ozerov, Oleg Panteleev, Nikolai Ryzhkov and Alexander Totoonov. Sanctions were also imposed against the bank JSC AB Rossiya. The US Treasury explained the inclusion of Russian businessmen in the sanctions list by the fact that they are all persons close to the President of Russia.

On March 21, EU leaders decided to move to the second level of sanctions against Russia "in view of the severity of the situation in Ukraine." The extended list includes 12 more citizens of Russia and Ukraine, including Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev, Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko. In addition, the list includes State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, deputy Elena Mizulina, presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and general manager International Information Agency "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev. The list also includes Rear Admiral Alexander Nosatov, First Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral Valery Kulikov, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Mikhail Malyshev, head of the Crimean Central Election Commission, Valery Medvedev, head of the Sevastopol Electoral Commission, and Lieutenant General Igor Turchenyuk, deputy head of the Southern Military District.

On March 21, Canada added 14 more Russian officials to its sanctions list in connection with the events in Ukraine, as well as Rossiya Bank.

Swiss authorities have restricted financial transactions for 33 Russian officials included in the EU sanctions list.

The United States imposed sanctions on the Crimean company Chernomorneftegaz and Crimean officials. Mayor of Sevastopol Oleksiy Chaly, First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev, heads of the Crimean and Sevastopol electoral committees Mikhail Malyshev and Valery Medvedev, adviser to the speaker of the State Council of Crimea Yuriy Zherebtsov, ex-head of the Crimean Department of the Security Service of Ukraine Petr Zima and member Russian Council Federation from Crimea Sergey Tsekov.

Montenegro, Iceland, Albania, Norway and Ukraine joined the individual EU sanctions adopted on March 17 and extended on March 21.

On April 12, Canada imposed sanctions on the head of the election commission of Sevastopol, Valery Medvedev, and his colleague from the election commission of Crimea, Mikhail Malyshev, as well as on the oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz.

On April 28, the US authorities again expanded the sanctions list to include seven more Russian citizens and 17 companies. White House press secretary Jay Carney explained this by saying that Russia "did nothing to comply with the Geneva obligations." Carney also accused Moscow of involvement in the violence in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions affected Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, and the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin. The list also includes presidential envoy to the CFD Oleg Belaventsev, head of the FSO Yevgeny Murov, head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov and head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov.

On the same day, April 28, the decision to expand the sanctions list was made by the European Union, and on April 29 the names of those on the list were published. The EU expanded the sanctions list by another 15 people. It included Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the GRU Igor Sergun, Permanent Representative of the President of Russia in Crimea Oleg Belaventsev, Head of the Ministry for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, State Duma Vice Speaker Lyudmila Shvetsova, State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov , Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergey Menyailo, Senator in the Federation Council from Crimea and Sevastopol Olga Kovatidi, representative of the Lugansk militia German Prokopyev, People's Governor of the Lugansk region Valery Bolotov, leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Andrey Purgin and Denis Pushilin, deputy leader militia Donbass Sergei Tsyplakov, head of the people's defense of Donbass in Slavyansk Igor Strelkov.

Canada's sanctions list includes State Duma deputies Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Alexei Pushkov, First Deputy Head of the Kremlin Administration Vyacheslav Volodin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexander Babakov, presidential envoy to the Crimean Federal District Oleg Belaventsev, head of the FSO Yevgeny Murov , as well as the Rotenberg brothers. The list of companies includes Expobank and Rosenergobank.

Japan imposed additional sanctions against 23 government officials of the Russian Federation who could be involved in the violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine. The names of the officials were not released.

The Swiss authorities have expanded the list of persons subject to financial restrictions by 15 people in response to the expanded list of the EU.

The Prime Minister of Canada said that sanctions are being imposed against 16 Russian "subjects" and apply to the following Russian banks and legal entities: InvestCapitalBank, Sobinbank, Northern Sea Route Bank, Aquanika, LLC Avia Group, LLC Avia Nord Group, ZEST CJSC, Sakhatrans LLC, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Abros Investment Company LLC, Volga Group, Stroytransgaz Holding and its four subsidiaries.

EU Council on foreign affairs included 13 more people in the list of EU sanctions against those responsible, in his opinion, for destabilizing the situation in Ukraine. The list includes the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin, the commander of the Airborne Forces Colonel-General of Russia Vladimir Shamanov and the head of the State Duma Committee on constitutional legislation and state building Vladimir Pligin. In addition, Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, Sevastopol prosecutor Igor Shevchenko, acting. Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea Petr Yarosh, acting Head of the Sevastopol Migration Service Oleg Kozyur. The EU also decided to freeze the assets of two companies from Sevastopol and Crimea - Feodosia and Chernomorneftegaz.

Canadian authorities have announced additional sanctions against six Russian citizens and six Ukrainian supporters of federalization. The list of sanctions from the Russian side included: Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Commander of the Armed Forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo, Vice Speakers of the State Duma Sergei Neverov and Lyudmila Shvetsova, Russian Minister for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, 1st member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive branch of the Republic of Crimea Olga Kovatidi.

The Swiss authorities have expanded the list of persons subject to financial and visa restrictions by 13 people in response to the expanded list of the EU.

Montenegro, Iceland, Albania, Liechtenstein and Norway have joined the implementation of the new EU sanctions lists.

Australia has imposed financial sanctions against 50 Russians and 11 companies because of the situation in Ukraine. Earlier, in March, the Australian authorities announced imminent sanctions against 12 Russian and Ukrainian officials. The Australian government has decided to extend sanctions to 38 more individuals and impose restrictions on 11 companies. The names of those included in the "black lists" were not indicated then.

Regarding Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Glazyev, Head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Deputies Elena Mizulina and Alexei Pushkov, Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitry Rogozin and Dmitry Kozak, aides to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, Vladimir Kozhin and Andrei Fursenko, the head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin and Alexei Gromov, acting. Head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov, businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Gennady Timchenko, head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, as well as a number of leaders of the unrecognized DPR and LPR. The list also includes the Bank of Russia, InvestCapitalBank, SMP Bank, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Avia Group Nord LLC, Stroytransgaz Group, Volga Group, Chernomorneftegaz, as well as other companies and individuals.

Canada has imposed additional economic sanctions and a ban on entry into the country for 11 citizens of the Russian Federation.

Washington synchronized its sanctions list with the European one. The United States imposed visa and financial restrictions on Russian State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov, Federal Minister for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, and the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic's Prime Minister Alexander Boroday, who were previously subject to EU sanctions. on the entire Donetsk and Lugansk republics and on the assistant to the President of Russia Igor Shchegolev. The US authorities have also imposed sanctions on a number of Russian defense and commodity companies. The sanctions list includes Almaz-Antey Concern, Uralvagonzavod, NPO Mashinostroeniya and several structures of Rostec: Kalashnikov Concerns (former Izhmash), Constellation, Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET), Bazalt and Konstruktorskoe instrumentation bureau. The largest Russian oil company Rosneft and Russia's largest independent gas producer Novatek, the oil terminal of Feodosia, as well as the Russian development bank Vnesheconombank and one of the country's largest commercial banks Gazprombank were under sanctions. Sanctions against Russian banks do not involve freezing assets, but a ban on receiving US loans for more than 90 days.

At their summit on July 16, they limited themselves to agreeing to expand the criteria for sanctions and only by the end of July to draw up a list of companies and individuals, including Russian ones, that will fall under targeted restrictive measures of the European Union.

Canada, following the United States, included a number of Russian defense and raw materials companies and banks in its sanctions list. Sanctions fell, in particular, on Gazprombank, Vnesheconombank and Russia's second-largest gas producer Novatek. The Canadian prime minister explained that the sanctions involve the cessation of lending to energy companies and financial institutions that were blacklisted.

15 names and 18 legal entities. Among them are FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Rashid Nurgaliev, member of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov, FSB officer Sergei Beseda and State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev . Among the companies are "Kerch Ferry", "Sevastopol Commercial Sea Port", "Kerch Commercial Sea Port", the state enterprise "Universal-Avia", the sanatorium "Nizhnyaya Oreanda", "Azov Distillery", the national agricultural production association "Massandra" , agricultural firm "Magarach" and the factory of sparkling wines "New World".

The US Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions against the Bank of Moscow, VTB and Rosselkhozbank, as well as the United Shipbuilding Corporation of the Russian Federation.

The EU has introduced new economic sanctions against Russia. The European Union has restricted access to the EU capital markets for Russian state-owned banks. These are Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank, and the state corporation Vnesheconombank, which are among the five largest credit institutions in the Russian Federation. , which cannot be exported for a number of projects in the Russian oil industry. It consists of 30 items, it includes, among other things, some types of pipes and drilling equipment. The restrictions included new contracts for the import and export of arms from the Russian Federation and for the sale of dual-use goods to Russia for the defense sector.

The sanctions list includes the Russian defense concern Almaz-Antey, the low-cost Dobrolet airline flying to Crimea, and the Russian National Commercial Bank. The list includes Alexei Gromov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, four Russian businessmen — Rossiya Bank shareholders Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov, businessmen Arkady Rotenberg and Konstantin Malofeev, as well as two representatives of self-proclaimed people's republics in eastern Ukraine. Restrictions on investments in Crimea have been approved.

The Swiss government has expanded the sanctions list in connection with Russia's position on Ukraine and added 26 citizens of Russia and Ukraine and 18 companies to it. The list, in particular, includes: Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Borodai, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

On the same day, approved additional sanctions against 40 individuals and the Crimean companies "Chernomorneftegaz" and "Feodosiya". Japan froze the assets of former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Denis Berezovsky, ex-Governor of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly, ex-head of the service security of Sevastopol Petr Zima, adviser to the speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Yuri Zherebtsov, senators from the Republic of Crimea Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi, head of the Republican Central Electoral Commission Mikhail Malyshev, head of the election commission of Sevastopol Valery Medvedev, governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo.

Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea Petr Yarosh, head of the Sevastopol department of the FMS Oleg Kozhura, Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, Sevastopol prosecutor Igor Shevchenko. The sanctions list also included the commander of the self-defense forces of the proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Strelkov (Girkin), the ataman of the All-Great Don Army, Nikolai Kozitsyn.

Canada has expanded its sanctions list against Russia to include 19 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as five Russian banks. Among the Russian banks included in the list: Bank of Moscow, Rosselkhozbank, Russian National Commercial Bank and VTB Bank. A number of Russian security officials fell under the Canadian sanctions, in particular, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, head of the 5th Directorate of the FSB Sergey Beseda, head of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kulishov, deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev, and State Duma Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev. In addition, the list included the governor Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, assistant to the president and ex-head of the Ministry of Communications Igor Shchegolev, Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev and shareholder of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov. The list also includes Crimean Interior Minister Sergei Abisov, one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed DPR Pavel Gubarev, his wife, DPR Foreign Minister Ekaterina Gubareva, speaker of the DPR Supreme Council Boris Litvinov and an employee of the LPR press service Oksana Chigrina.

In addition, several Crimean companies were included in the list: the Kerch commercial port and the Kerch ferry crossing, as well as the Massandra winery, the Novy Svet winery, the commercial port of Sevastopol, National Institute grapes and wine "Magarach", the airline "Universal-Avia". The list also includes the Russian airline Dobrolet and the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law "On Sanctions", which provides for the possibility of imposing more than 20 types of sanctions against Russia, including the termination of the transit of energy resources. the law was signed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, on September 12 the law came into force.

On September 1, Australia banned the supply of arms and equipment for the oil and gas sector to Russia, the access of Russian state banks to the Australian capital market, investment in or trade with Crimea. was expanded to 63 individuals and 21 companies and organizations. In addition, Australia suspended the supply of uranium to Russia. March 31, 2015.

The European Union has published a new sanctions list. Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom Neft fell under the EU sanctions. The EU has banned the supply of dual-use goods to nine companies in the Russian defense sector, in particular, the list includes Oboronprom, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Uralvagonzavod, and the Kalashnikov Concern.

European companies to provide Russian partners with exploration and production services for deep sea and arctic oil, as well as for shale oil projects.

The European Union has tightened access to loans of a number of state-owned banks of the Russian Federation and reduced the term of loans.

The new sanctions list includes State Duma deputies Svetlana Zhurova, Nikolai Levichev, Igor Lebedev, Ivan Melnikov, Alexander Babakov.

The United States blocked the assets of five Russian defense companies accessible to American jurisdiction. The sanctions list includes Almaz-Antey (one of the world's largest manufacturers of air defense systems), the Research Institute of Instrument Engineering (manufacturer of systems for combat aircraft and air defense systems), Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant, Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, as well as a company designated as "Research and production center in Dolgoprudny".

On access to the capital market for 6 Russian banks. The sanctions affect Sberbank, VTB and its subsidiary Bank of Moscow, Gazprombank, Russian Agricultural Bank, Vnesheconombank.

New US sanctions restrict cooperation with Russian companies for oil production, including with Gazpromneft, Lukoil and Rosneft. In addition, the list includes Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Transneft, Rostec.

Canada announced the expansion of the list of sanctions against Russia. The new sanctions list includes Sberbank and five defense enterprises of the Russian Federation: the Research and Production Center in Dolgoprudny, the M.I. Kalinin Machine-Building Plant (MZiK), the Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant, and the Research Institute of Instrumentation named after V. V. Tikhomirov" (NIIP) and JSC "Marine Research Institute of Radio Electronics "Altair" (JSC "MNIIRE "Altair"). The list of persons who were banned from entering Canada, as well as possible assets were frozen, included Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yuri Sadovenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Dmitry Bulgakov, First Deputy General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Bogdanovsky and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov.

EU candidate countries Montenegro, Iceland and Albania, as well as Liechtenstein, Norway, members of the European Economic Area and Ukraine, joined the EU sanctions package against Russia on September 12.

The European Union included in the sanctions list of candidates for the November 2 elections of heads and parliaments of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and representatives of the leadership of the LPR and DPR. The organizations that fell under the sanctions were the public organizations of the DPR "Donetsk Republic" and "Free Donbass", from the LPR - "Peace to the Lugansk Region", "People's Union" and "Lugansk Economic Union". In total, the list includes 13 names and 5 public organizations. Those on the list are banned from entering the EU, and their assets in the EU are frozen.

The Japanese government has imposed sanctions on a number of individuals and organizations in the Donbass. In total, there are 26 people on the list, as well as 14 organizations.

US President Barack Obama has announced that he has signed a decree on new sanctions against Russia and the annexed Crimea. The decree prohibits new investments by US residents in the Crimean region of Ukraine, the import of goods, services, technologies into the US from Crimea, as well as the export, re-export, sale and supply of goods, services and technologies from the US or by persons residing in the US to the Crimean region. operating in Crimea, as well as financial institutions that directly or indirectly carry out transactions with Crimea.

Against 24 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as a number of companies. Among those under sanctions is Konstantin Malofeev's Marshall Capital Partners fund. Also on the list of sanctions were a number of leaders of the Crimea and Donbass, as well as the biker organization Night Wolves.

Canada added 11 more citizens of the Russian Federation to the sanctions list. It included 10 parliamentarians, including Vladimir Vasilyev, Vice Speaker of the State Duma and head of the United Russia faction, deputies Leonid Kalashnikov (KPRF), Igor Lebedev (LDPR), Oleg Lebedev (LDPR), Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Nikolai Levichev (" A Just Russia"), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov (KPRF), deputies Viktor Vodolatsky (United Russia), Svetlana Zhurova (United Russia) and Vladimir Nikitin (KPRF). In addition, the list includes Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobyov, as well as the head of the representative office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Russian Federation Andrey Rodkin. Thus, the number of individuals who fell under Canadian sanctions has reached 77 people. The new package of sanctions also provides for restrictions on the export of technologies that are used in the oil and gas industries.

Against the economy and tourism industry of Crimea. In particular, ships providing cruise services are prohibited from entering the ports of Sevastopol, Kerch, Yalta, Feodosia, Evpatoria, Chernomorsk and the port of Kamysh-Burun. In addition, the EU has expanded by more than six times the list of goods and technologies prohibited from deliveries to Crimea and for use in Crimea in the areas of transport, telecommunications, energy and exploration, extraction and production of oil, gas and minerals. More than 160 items were included in the list.

Due to US sanctions, two international payment systems - Visa and MasterCard - decided to suspend servicing Russian bank cards operating in Crimea.

The head of EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, confirmed the extension of individual sanctions against Russia and Donbass militias until September 2015.

Published a list of individual sanctions against persons whom the EU considers responsible for the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine.

The list includes 19 people, including Deputy Commander of the DPR militia Eduard Basurin, Russian singer, State Duma deputy and native of Donbass Iosif Kobzon, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, First Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin, as well as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces RF Andrey Kartapolov.

The list also includes a number of representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In particular, LPR Minister of Justice Alexander Shubin, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the LPR Sergey Litvin, Commander-in-Chief of the "People's Militia" of the LPR Sergey Ignatov, Finance Minister of the LPR Evgeny Manuilov, Minister economic development LPR Olga Besedina, acting Prosecutor General of the LPR Zaur Ismailov, Minister of Justice of the DPR Ekaterina Filippova, Minister of Revenue and Duties of the DPR Alexander Timofeev and Minister of Communications of the DPR Viktor Yatsenko.

The list also includes the Cossack National Guard, whose commander, Nikolai Kozitsyn, was already on the sanctions list, the Sparta battalion and its commander Arseniy Pavlov, the Somali battalion and its commander Mikhail Tolstykh, the Zarya battalion, the defendant’s Ghost brigade the sanctions list of Alexei Mozgovoy, the Oplot battalion, the Kalmius battalion and the Death battalion. The sanctions also affected the commanders of the militia units Pavel Dremov and Alexei Milchakov.

Announced the introduction of new sanctions against 37 individuals and 17 organizations from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The black list of Canada from the Russian side included Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Anatoly Antonov and CEO of Rostec Corporation Sergey Chemezov, Russian biker Alexander Zaldostanov, deputy Valery Rashkin, singer and deputy Iosif Kobzon and journalist Dmitry Kiselev.

In addition, the list includes Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Andrei Kartapolov, Rear Admiral Valery Kulikov, Major General Alexei Naumets, Rear Admiral Alexander Nosatov and Lieutenant General Igor Turchenyuk.

Also, sanctions were imposed on the deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin, the first deputy chairman of the People's Council of the LPR Vladislav Deinego, as well as other representatives of the self-proclaimed republics.

In addition, the list includes the Cossack National Guard, the Sparta battalion and its leader Arseniy Pavlov, nicknamed Motorola, the Somali battalion and its commander Mikhail Tolstykh, nicknamed Givi, the Zarya battalion, the Ghost brigade, the Oplot battalion , battalion "Kalmius", battalion "Death". The sanctions also affected the commander of the Rusich unit, Alexei Milchakov, nicknamed Fritz, the Minister of Defense of the LPR, Oleg Bugrov, and other representatives of the militia.

The state oil company Rosneft is included in Canada's sanctions list, and sanctions have also been imposed on the public movement Novorossiya.

Extended the regime of national emergency, announced in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014. Thus, all rounds of sanctions against Russia imposed in 2014, including the latest economic sanctions against Crimea from December 2014, are extended for a year.

In addition to the EU sanctions of 27 August 2014 against Russia, it also enforced restrictions adopted in December 2014 regarding a ban on trade with Crimea and Sevastopol. Everything foreign investment to the Crimea and Sevastopol are now banned, the previously existing ban on the export of certain products to this region has been expanded with new names. The sanctions legislation also added a list of 28 individuals and enterprises previously subject to EU sanctions with which Swiss entrepreneurs are prohibited from trading.

They introduced new sanctions against individuals and organizations involved, in their opinion, in the crisis in Ukraine. The list published by the US Treasury Department included, in particular, the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNKB), the Eurasian Youth Union, as well as 14 citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Among them are former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Secretary of the DPR Security Council Alexander Khodakovsky.

The EU Council's decision to extend until September 15, 2015 individual EU sanctions on Ukraine against citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation and Ukraine was published in the Official Journal of the EU. Sanctions imposed a year earlier were due to expire on March 15.

The list includes three citizens of the Russian Federation and 14 legal entities. The leaders of the Eurasian Youth Union Alexander Dugin, Pavel Kanishchev and Andrey Kovalenko were added to the list. In addition, the expansion of sanctions affected, in particular, the Marshall Capital Fund, the Night Wolves motorcycle club, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz and Transneft.

The list published on the website of the Canadian government also includes: the Eurasian Youth Union, JSC Sirius (produces optoelectronics for military and civilian use), JSC Tula Arms Plant, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, Khimkompozit company (produces materials for defense industry), arms manufacturer OAO High Precision Complexes, association Stankoinstrument (specializes in mechanical engineering) and OPK Oboronprom.

At the level of Foreign Ministers, he extended economic sanctions against the Russian Federation until January 31, 2016, approving the relevant amendments to the EU decision on sectoral restrictive measures against Russia.

They announced the expansion of sanctions. The list has grown by 11 individuals and 15 legal entities, including subsidiaries of VEB and Rosneft. The sanctions list has been expanded to 61 points with the justification "in connection with the events in Ukraine and activities in the Crimean region of Ukraine."

Among the legal entities that fell under the sanctions, there are Russian, Finnish, Cypriot companies. In particular, we are talking about the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and the Izhmash concern; ports of Evpatoria, Feodosiya, Kerch, Sevastopol, Yalta; company "Kerch Ferry".

The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Member States (Coreper) decided to extend until March 2016 individual sanctions against citizens of Russia and Ukraine, whom the EU considers responsible for undermining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. As of September 2015, the EU sanctions list includes 150 people, including Russian officials and representatives of the LPR and DPR, as well as 37 legal entities.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced sanctions against the Russian Federation for a period of one year. The sanctions list included 388 individuals and 105 legal entities, including citizens of 23 states. Ukrainian sanctions affected 28 Russian banks and 25 Russian airlines. Channel One, TV channels RTR-Planeta, Rossiya 24, NTV and three correspondents from the TASS news agency. In total, the sanctions also include seven bloggers from 17 countries, including from Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Israel, Spain, and Switzerland. Sanctions were also imposed on BBC journalists. The next day, given the significant public outcry and strategic importance relations with the European Union, Kiev lifted sanctions against journalists from Britain, Germany and Spain.

The largest Russian carriers, including Aeroflot (with all its subsidiaries), Transaero, and Sibir, which is being rehabilitated. , all of them are partially or completely prohibited from transiting resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine.

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine has imposed sanctions against several charitable foundations from Russia. The list of organizations subject to personal special economic and other restrictive measures includes, in particular, charitable foundations: Ekaterina Gubareva, "Global Initiatives", "New Martyrs and Confessors of Christ", "We do not abandon our own" fund and the Interregional public organization promoting the preservation of national traditions and cultural heritage"Veche". The Security Service of Ukraine accuses these charitable foundations of funding the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.

It became known that the US Treasury has included FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in its sanctions list on Syria. Of the individuals on the list, three more people are citizens of Syria and Cyprus. the list includes six companies in Syria, Cyprus and Russia, including the Russian Financial Alliance bank, which, according to the Ministry of Finance, is associated with Ilyumzhinov. Sanctions have been imposed for contacts with the Syrian government and state institutions that the US has declared illegal.

The US Treasury published a sanctions list of 34 individuals and organizations from Russia and Ukraine, which, according to the department, assisted Russia in interfering in the affairs of Ukraine. Subsidiaries and non-state pension funds of Sberbank and VTB, as well as Novikombank, the development company GALS-Development and the online payment service Yandex-Money were added to the list of sectoral sanctions. In addition, the Crimean wineries Novy Svet, Massandra and Magarach, as well as representatives of Kalashnikov and the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, were subject to sanctions.

Russian retaliatory sanctions

On March 20, 2014, in response to sanctions against a number of Russian officials and deputies of the Federal Assembly, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of officials and members of the US Congress who are denied entry into the Russian Federation. The list includes nine people.

On March 24, in response to Canadian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of 13 Canadian officials, members of parliament and public figures of Canada who are denied entry to Russia.

The State Council of the Republic of Crimea published on the official website a list of persons whose stay is considered undesirable in the Republic of Crimea. The list includes 320 people, including leading Ukrainian politicians, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. On April 1, this list was replenished with 10 names, among them - the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko and the leader of the "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, said that Moscow has taken retaliatory measures to expand the sanctions lists from the United States, the EU and Canada, they are in many ways mirrored. At the same time, Russia will not publish the names of specific individuals against whom it imposes sanctions in response to the sanctions lists of Western countries. According to the Foreign Ministry, the people on the "stop list" will find out that they are on the Russian "black list" when they cross the Russian border.

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov imposed sanctions against US President Barack Obama, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. Kadyrov instructed to freeze their bank accounts and any assets, the listed politicians were banned from entering the Chechen Republic.

For a year, it restricted the import of a number of goods from countries that imposed sanctions against it.

On August 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the application of certain special economic measures to ensure security. The corresponding list includes beef, pork, fruits, poultry, cheeses and dairy products, nuts and other products. The List of agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs, the country of origin of which is the United States of America, the countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia and the Kingdom of Norway, has been approved. Later, goods that, for one reason or another, are difficult for Russia to replace, were excluded from the list.

On August 11, the government of the Russian Federation limited government purchases of foreign goods light industry. According to the list of goods, foreign fabrics, outerwear and overalls, leather clothing, underwear, footwear, fur products and others are not allowed for purchases that are not related to the state defense order. The restriction does not apply to goods produced in the territory of Belarus and Kazakhstan and goods not produced in the Russian Federation.

Japanese Ambassador to the Russian Federation Chikahito Harada was handed a list of Japanese citizens who are restricted from entering Russia in response to Tokyo sanctions.

The Izvestia newspaper, citing sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, reported that over 200 politicians and officials from the EU and the US were included in the lists foreign citizens who may be banned from entering the Russian Federation. This list is a mirror image of similar blacklists of the European Union and NATO countries. The first place in the number of such citizens is occupied by the United States - over 60 people. The list includes Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Caroline Atkinson, US Assistants Daniel Pfeiffer and Benjamin Rhodes, US Congressional Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, Senators Mary Landrew, John McCain.

The EU Delegation in Moscow has received a list of citizens of EU countries who are banned from entering Russia. The document (as of May 26, 2015) contains 89 names, including about 20 current and 10 former members of the European Parliament, current and former heads of intelligence services in Britain and the Baltic Sea countries, a number of British, German, Polish and Estonian military leaders, and also deputy head of the Romanian state-owned company Transgaz. . The list includes representatives of 17 out of 27 EU countries. The fifth part of the list is occupied by representatives of Poland (18 names), followed by Britain (9), Sweden, Estonia (8 each), Germany, Lithuania (7 each), Latvia and Romania (5 each).

A decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published on the extension for a year of special economic measures against the West, introduced by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 6, 2014. The response period has been extended from 6 August 2015 to 5 August 2016.

It extended the food embargo, introduced as a response to the sanctions, to Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Ukraine, and the latter with a delay - the ban on the import of its products will come into force only if Kiev applies the economic part of the association agreement with the European Union.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The so-called "Magnitsky List" was adopted in the United States simultaneously with the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment. A related law established sanctions against Russian officials involved or even simply related (according to the US) to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

The list includes several dozen names of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Federal Tax Service, the Arbitration Court, the Prosecutor General and the Federal Penitentiary Service. They were banned from entering the United States, and their monetary and property assets, if any, were frozen. All conclusions about the involvement of certain persons were made without investigation and without trial.

Sergei Magnitsky was a witness and defendant in the economic crimes case of the Hermitage Capital Management fund. During the investigation, he died in the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center under unknown circumstances. After repeated checks by Russian law enforcement officers, no violations were found, and this death was recognized as an accident.

In December 2012, Russia adopted a retaliatory package of measures against the United States, and more precisely against American officials involved in violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation. This initiative was unofficially called the Dima Yakovlev Law, after a foster child from Russia who died in the United States due to the negligence of his parents. One of the main points of the law was the ban on the adoption of Russian children by US citizens, which was justified by the large number of deaths of adopted children from Russia, as well as the unwillingness of the US authorities to investigate these cases and punish those responsible.

Nuclear Weapons Sanctions (2016-present)

2016

In July 2016, the US imposed sanctions on dozens of foreign enterprises, including five Russian defense enterprises. According to the US authorities, these companies violate the US non-proliferation law. nuclear weapons regarding Iran, North Korea and Syria.

2017

March 25, 2017. The United States imposed sanctions on eight companies from Russia under the American law on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction regarding Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Sanctions in connection with the Ukrainian crisis

Russia and the countries that imposed sanctions against it in connection with the Ukrainian crisis

Previous events:

Coup d'état in Ukraine

Reunification of Crimea with Russia

War in the Southeast

The sanctions imposed in connection with the Ukrainian crisis are the largest in the history of Russia in terms of the number of participating countries. The United States initiated the imposition of sanctions, main goal which was the isolation of Russia on the world stage and a blow to the resurgent Russian economy. Later, under the most powerful American economic and political pressure, the European Union joined the restrictive measures, although some European countries spoke out against such measures. Everyone understood that not only Russia would suffer, but also the countries of the West, which are connected with Russia by close economic ties. The sanctions were also supported by US satellite countries such as Australia, Japan, Canada, as well as EU candidate countries.

The measures taken limit the access of Russian banks and companies to the EU capital market, and also affect the Russian raw material sector, aircraft industry and the defense complex. Lists of Russian citizens were also compiled, who, according to the West, were involved in the events in Ukraine. Those on these “black lists” are prohibited from visiting countries that have imposed sanctions. In addition, the capitals and assets belonging to these persons, if any, are subject to freezing.

What exactly is the involvement of Russia, no one could clearly justify. There was no evidence of a Russian military invasion, supply of weapons or other activities that would destabilize the situation in Ukraine, while the fact that the situation was destabilized as a result of financial and political support for Euromaidan by Western countries is quite obvious.

It is noteworthy that a new package of restrictive measures was adopted immediately after the start of the Minsk truce, at which, with the mediation of Russia, it was possible to achieve an almost complete cessation of hostilities in the Donbass and a partial withdrawal of troops. This fact finally confirmed that the anti-Russian sanctions were introduced not for the sake of Ukraine, but against Russia, in the hope of exacerbating the protest political processes within the country, during which the government would be replaced by a more acceptable one for the United States.

2014 US sanctions

The United States introduced the first restrictive list of high-ranking Russian and Ukrainian politicians who are prohibited from entering US territory, and their finances and property are blocked if they are in American jurisdiction. Washington said that sanctions would be expanded if Russia does not stop trying to destabilize the situation. In other words, Russia was required not to interfere in the Ukrainian coup, although the United States and the European Union themselves actively supported the overthrow of the legitimate power of President Yanukovych. Russian politicians included in the sanctions list ironically stated that they have neither finances nor property outside of Russia, and they are not going to visit the United States. In total, 11 people were included in the list, including the speaker of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov, the legitimate President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the Prime Minister of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov. On the same day, the EU countries agreed to impose similar sanctions. Their list includes politicians from Russia and Crimea (21 people in total).

Canada, following the US, introduced visa restrictions for high-ranking representatives of Russia and Crimea. Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already announced that Canada is suspending military cooperation with Russia.

After the completion of the reunification of Crimea with Russia, the US authorities, who did not expect such a development of events, hastily add 19 more Russian citizens to the sanctions list. They included several businessmen who are not related to politics. According to the State Department, they are close to Vladimir Putin. Thus, the US authorities planned to put pressure on the President of Russia through his entourage.

The European Union, following the United States, moved to the second level of sanctions. V new list included 12 citizens of Russia and Ukraine. Among them are Dmitry Rogozin, Sergey Glazyev, Valentina Matvienko, Sergey Naryshkin, Elena Mizulina, Vladislav Surkov, Dmitry Kiselev.

Canada has expanded its sanctions list to include several more Russian citizens. They included State Duma deputies Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Alexei Pushkov.

The United States imposed a package of sanctions against the Crimean oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz and added a number of Crimean officials to the sanctions list.

The US authorities once again expanded their sanctions list by 7 citizens and 17 state-owned companies of the Russian Federation. The White house without any evidence accused Russia of non-compliance with the "Geneva Conventions", as well as inciting the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Canada has introduced a package of anti-Russian sanctions, it includes 16 Russian banks and legal entities. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the new restrictions are due to Russia's occupation of Crimea. Harper does not take into account the will of the Crimeans themselves.

On the same day, the EU added 15 more Russian citizens to its restrictive list.

The EU expanded the sanctions list by another 13 people, and also froze the assets of two companies from Sevastopol and Crimea - Feodosia and Chernomorneftegaz.

Canada has imposed additional sanctions against 6 Russian citizens. They included Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Commander of the Armed Forces of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Strelkov.

Canada has imposed additional economic sanctions and expanded its restrictive list by 11 citizens of the Russian Federation.

The United States expanded the sanctions list with Russian citizens who were previously included in the EU restrictive list. In addition, the sanctions extended to the DNR and LNR.

Also, a new package of sanctions was introduced against Russian defense and raw material enterprises: Almaz-Antey, Uralvagonzavod, NPO Mashinostroeniya, Kalashnikov Concern (formerly Izhmash), Constellation, Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET), Bazalt , Instrument Design Bureau, Rosneft, Novatek, Feodosia oil terminal, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank. Sanctions against Russian banks prevent them from receiving US loans for more than 90 days.

Canada repeated the actions of the United States and introduced a package of sanctions against Russian defense and raw materials enterprises.

The EU expanded its sanctions list by another 15 names and 18 legal entities. Among them are the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov.

The EU said it had agreed on a new package of restrictive measures that would come into force on 1 August.

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against several Russian banks and the United Shipbuilding Corporation of the Russian Federation.

The EU released the names of 8 people and 3 legal entities that were included in the sanctions list a day earlier. Among them are the head of the Crimean Interior Ministry and several Russian businessmen.

Canada has expanded the sanctions list by another 19 citizens of Russia and Ukraine and 5 of the largest Russian banks. The list also includes a number of persons from the authorities of the DPR and LPR, as well as the commanders of the military units of the Vostok militia and the Army of the South-East. Affected by Canadian sanctions and large corporations of the Crimea.

Norway joined the sanctions against Russia, supporting the EU restrictive package of July 31st.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law on sanctions against Russia, which allows the introduction of more than 20 restrictive measures, one of which is the termination of the transit of energy resources. A list of 172 individuals and 65 legal entities was also compiled, against which it is proposed to introduce personal restrictive measures.

The EU has unveiled new sanctions against Russia, against the backdrop of the relative success of the Minsk truce. This step seemed absolutely absurd and illogical to a number of experts. The new package restricted Russian companies' access to financial capital EU, while loans to individuals and companies will be issued for a period not exceeding 30 days. In addition, 24 more citizens of the Russian Federation were included in the EU banned list. Thus, in total, 119 people were included in the individual sanctions list.

Canada has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russian scientific enterprises and banned loans to Russian companies for more than 30 days.

The US Senate passed a law on sanctions against Russia, which allows the President of the country to impose new sanctions in order to put pressure on Russia. Barack Obama signed this law on December 18, but said that the new restrictive measures would not be applied yet.

The EU has adopted a new package of sanctions against Crimea, which will come into force on December 20. After this date, all investments in Crimea and Sevastopol are considered illegal.

The United States and Canada, following the EU, introduced a package of sanctions against Crimea and Sevastopol with the aim of a complete financial and economic blockade of the peninsula. All exports of services, technologies and goods were banned, and American investors will not be able to conduct any activity in Crimea. The new package also gives the US Treasury Secretary the power to apply sanctions against individuals and companies operating in Crimea. It is noteworthy that shortly before this, Obama said that the sanctions imposed on Cuba did not bring results and harmed the States themselves (the sanctions against Cuba were in effect for more than half a century, since 1960). Thus, the president recognized the policy of sanctions as erroneous, but did not refuse new restrictions against Russia.

The EU countries agreed to extend the anti-Russian sanctions imposed in March 2014 until December 2015.

Greece forced to remove the phrase about a new package of anti-Russian sanctions from the statement of the EU foreign ministers. However, the foreign ministers of the EU countries had previously agreed to extend the already imposed sanctions against Russia for six months. It soon became known that Russia would consider granting financial assistance Greece.

2015 US sanctions

The EU, despite the peace agreements on Ukraine signed in Minsk, expanded the sanctions list by 19 individuals and 9 legal entities, of which 5 are Russian citizens. Of the citizens of Novorossia, the list includes the well-known militiaman Arseniy Pavlov with the call sign "Motorola", as well as the commander-in-chief of the "people's militia" of the LPR Sergey Ignatov and the Minister of Justice of the LPR Alexander Shubin.

US President Barack Obama extended his March 6, 2014 executive order declaring a state of emergency for Russia. According to his statement, Russia, with its position on the Ukrainian crisis, creates a situation in which there is an "unusual and extraordinary threat to US security and foreign policy." Thus, the effect of US sanctions against the Russian Federation has been extended for another year. But as before, no specific claims or evidence of the presence of the Russian military on the territory of Donbass have been presented.

Switzerland, against the backdrop of the extension of anti-Russian sanctions by the United States and a relative truce in Novorossia, has added 28 more citizens of the Russian Federation to the sanctions black list. New restrictive measures come into force from 18:00 on the same day. Earlier, Switzerland supported the EU sanctions adopted on August 27, 2014 against Crimea and Sevastopol, which prohibit any investment activity in the region.

The United States expanded the sanctions blacklist of citizens on the Ukrainian crisis by another 14 persons, 5 of which are citizens of the Russian Federation, the rest are citizens of Ukraine representing the government of Viktor Yanukovych and the self-proclaimed republics of the DPR and LPR. In addition, sanctions were imposed on the Russian organization Eurasian Youth Union and its three leaders (Alexander Dugin, Pavel Kaniischev, Andrey Kovalenko), as well as the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB), which operates in Crimea. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in comments on the new sanctions said that they are primarily related to Russia's withdrawal from the ad hoc advisory group on CFE.

The Council of the European Union decided to extend sanctions against Russia until September 15, 2015. The decision comes into force on March 14. In total, at the moment, restrictions apply to 150 individuals and 37 organizations. See list.

Australia has imposed a new package of economic sanctions against Russia. According to the country's leadership, restrictive measures completely repeat the sanctions of the European Union and the United States adopted in 2014. Restrictions apply to the import or export of weapons, the supply of equipment for oil production, as well as limited investment in the Crimea and Sevastopol.

Rosfinmonitoring has imposed banking sanctions against 41 countries - banks are required to report all transactions of clients who are residents of countries that have adopted anti-Russian sanctions, support terrorism and do not fight corruption.

Norway, following the European Union, expanded the sanctions list against Russian and Ukrainian citizens by 19 individuals and 9 legal entities.] 5 Russians are included in the new edition of the "black list", this is Deputy. Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov, First Deputy. Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Arkady Bakhin, deputies of the State. Duma Iosif Kobzon and Valery Rashkin, as well as the head of the chief operational management Russian General Staff Andrey Kartapolov.

The United States opened access to free web services to residents of Crimea, which was limited with the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions. The ban will be lifted on a number of network functions such as: instant messaging, chats and e-mail, social networks, photo and movie sharing, web browsing and blogging, but only on condition that such services are available at no charge to the user.

European sanctions against Russia have been extended until January 31, 2016. In response, Russia extended its retaliatory restrictions against countries that adopted sanctions for a year.

Six more European countries joined the extension of anti-Russian sanctions on June 22, 2015, these are Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Montenegro and Ukraine. Also, Georgia joined the restrictions against Crimea on June 19.

The US has imposed a new package of sanctions against another 11 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as 15 companies. According to the US authorities, this is due to the activities of these individuals in the Crimean region. Among legal entities, Finnish and Cypriot companies also fell under the new sanctions, which caused some misunderstanding between these countries and the United States.

The US has imposed new sanctions against Russian companies. The "black list" includes the Tula Instrument Design Bureau, the Katod company, NPO Mashinostroeniya, the MiG corporation, and Rosoboronexport. At the same time, the EU countries decided to extend sanctions against the Russian Federation until March, and the National Security Council of Ukraine expanded the list of persons against whom sanctions are imposed.

Ukraine has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia for a period of one year. The banned list includes 400 individuals and 90 legal entities from Russia and partially other countries. Russian airlines Aeroflot, its three subsidiaries Donavia, Orenburg Airlines and Rossiya, as well as a dozen others that have been sanctioned, will not be able to fly to Ukraine from October 25.

The European Union has softened some of the anti-Russian sanctions against Russian space enterprises necessary for the EU to implement its space program.

Reuters news agency reported that Western leaders agreed at the G20 summit in Turkey to extend sanctions against Russia for six months.

The US has imposed a new package of sanctions against Russia. Under restrictive measures were 34 individuals and legal entities from Russia and Ukraine, who, according to the US authorities, are involved or assisted in interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. The list includes subsidiaries of VTB Bank and Sberbank abroad, non-state pension funds (NPF) of Sberbank, VTB, VTB24 Bank, as well as wine companies from Crimea and the Yalta Film Studio.

2016 US sanctions

US President Barack Obama has extended sanctions against Russia over the Ukrainian crisis indefinitely. The executive order said Russia's actions in Ukraine continue to pose "an extraordinary and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy."

Canada has expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions by fourteen companies and five individuals, whose assets will be frozen, and entry into the country is prohibited.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the entry into force of sanctions against Russians who are involved in the cases of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, as well as director Oleg Sentsov and his accomplice Alexander Kolchenko.

The United States lifted part of the sanctions against Crimea for the first time.

A bill providing for tougher sanctions against Russia has been approved by a committee of the US House of Representatives.

Ukraine added 250 more individuals and 46 legal entities from Russia to its sanctions list.

The US government has expanded the list of Russian individuals and entities subject to unilateral US economic sanctions due to the conflict in Ukraine. The list of individuals and companies to which various kinds of restrictions will apply has been replenished with 17 names and 19 companies.

The US Department of Commerce has expanded the list of Russian companies subject to sanctions. According to some reports, the new restrictive measures will affect 81 companies and organizations, of which 7 are located in Crimea. At the same time, the US authorities lifted part of the sanctions against Rosoboronexport, which affect contracts for the maintenance of Mi-17 helicopters in Afghanistan.

The EU authorities once again extended sanctions against 146 citizens and 37 legal entities of Russia and Ukraine.

The United States has imposed new personal sanctions against Russian citizens in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. Six State Duma deputies from Crimea fell under restrictive measures: Ruslan Balbek, Konstantin Bakharev, Andrey Kozenko, Pavel Shperov, Dmitry Belik and Svetlana Savchenko.

Switzerland has extended personal sanctions against Russian citizens in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. The new restrictive list includes six people who are deputies of the State Duma of the VII convocation from Crimea and Sevastopol.

Canada imposed sanctions against 6 Russian State Duma deputies from Crimea. The statement says that the Canadian authorities consider this territory, together with Sevastopol, "annexed" and do not recognize it as part of Russia.

US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions against the FSB, the GRU, a number of other Russian organizations, as well as six individuals, explaining this by alleged cyber attacks on the US electoral system by Russia. The US also decided to expel 35 Russian diplomats and shut down access to two facilities used by Russian workers (in New York and Maryland), in response to "a campaign of harassment of American diplomats in Moscow by Russian authorities," according to a US official.

2017 US sanctions

The current US President Barack Obama signed a decree extending sanctions against Russia for a year due to the situation in the Crimea and Ukraine.

The United States has once again expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions. 19 organizations and 19 people from Russia and Donbass fell under the restrictions, including Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Sergey Nazarov.

The European Union officially extended economic sanctions against Russia for six months "due to its insufficient implementation of the Minsk agreements."

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending the response to Western sanctions until December 31, 2018.

US President Donald Trump signed a law on toughening the sanctions regime against three countries: Russia, Iran and North Korea. The document was the result of the active and long work of members of both parties in Congress, it was adopted by an overwhelming number of votes. The restrictions will affect cooperation between the Armed Forces of Russia and the United States, as well as the special services and military-industrial complexes of the two countries, the receipt by the Russian economy, primarily energy companies, of credit funds in the West. The text also included a provision that US policy should, among other things, oppose the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Individuals investing in the energy sector in Russia may also be blacklisted. In addition, the law obliges the presidential administration to submit reports on Russia to Congress within six months, and then annually, including the identification of all significant political and economic actors within Russia , the amount of their assets, their foreign business connections, the impact on the US economy. The report will indicate the possible consequences of imposing sanctions on each of these entities or individuals.

The European Union has expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions due to the scandal with the supply of Siemens turbines to the Crimea. Three Russian citizens and three companies have been added to the list of persons subject to restrictive measures.

The US Department of the Treasury has introduced further restrictive measures against Russia, banning individuals and legal entities in its jurisdiction from cooperating with companies from the Russian Federation in deep-sea, Arctic and shale energy projects. The ban applies to all individuals and legal entities that the United States has already added or may add to the list of anti-Russian sanctions.

The Canadian government has imposed sanctions against 30 Russian citizens. As noted in the document, restrictive measures are associated with the law "On the victims of corrupt foreign governments", which is similar to the American "Magnitsky act".

US sanctions 2018

The United States has expanded sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Ukraine. The blacklist included 21 citizens of Russia and Ukraine (mostly from the unrecognized republics of the LPR and DPR), as well as 21 companies.

The US Treasury published an unclassified part of the “Kremlin Report”, which included representatives of the presidential administration, including Dmitry Peskov and Vladislav Surkov, as well as Russian businessmen. In total, the list included the names of 210 people divided into 4 parts - "Presidential Administration", "Cabinet of Ministers", "Other high-ranking political leaders" and "Oligarchs". The list also includes all members Russian government, including Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The United States has expanded sanctions against Russia. The restrictions were introduced in accordance with the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), passed last year. The list includes individuals and companies accused by Washington of interfering in US elections. In total, 13 people and three companies were included in this list. Also under the restrictions were the FSB and the GRU and six employees of these departments, whom Washington considers responsible for the attack of the NotPetya virus. The assets of those on the list will be frozen in the United States, and citizens and permanent residents of the country will be prohibited from doing business with them.

The United States, Canada, Norway, Albania, Macedonia, Ukraine and 14 EU countries (France, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Romania, Croatia and Latvia) expel a number of Russian diplomats under the pretext of a case of poisoning of ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal. The United States will have to leave sixty people (48 employees of the diplomatic mission and another 12 employees of the UN mission). In addition, Washington is closing the Russian Consulate General in Seattle. This step was explained in the White House by the "proximity of the Consulate General to one of the submarine bases."

Washington added 38 Russian businessmen, officials and companies to the list of sanctions. The list includes businessmen Oleg Deripaska and Igor Rotenberg, as well as the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, head of VTB Andrei Kostin, head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov and others. In total - seven Russian businessmen and 17 officials. The list was supplemented by 14 companies, 12 of which are private (Agroholding Kuban, B-Finance Limited, EN+ Group, Renova, Gazprom Burenie, EnPiVi Engineering, Ladoga Management, GAZ, Rusal) , "Basic Element", "Eurosibenergo", "Russian Machines"), two - state-owned ("Rosoboronexport" and "Russian Financial Corporation")

Economic sanctions against the Russian Federation have different roots, structures, mechanisms and goals. Distinctive feature of these sanctions is their point orientation, i.e. restrictions are not imposed on the state as a whole, but on individual residents of the country: commercial structures and individuals.

Reasons for imposing sanctions against Russia

Key measures

Russian intervention in the situation on the Crimean peninsula in February - March 2014;

Russia's support for the unilateral declaration of independence of the Republic of Crimea;

The entry of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation, which is considered as a violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine;

Failure to comply with the terms of the Geneva Convention of April 17, 2014 Sectoral measures

"Moscow's support for the militias in eastern Ukraine";

"Failure to promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as well as failure to promote access for international experts to the crash site of the Malaysian airliner."

The initiator of the imposition of sanctions with the aim of isolating Russia internationally was the leadership of the United States, under strong pressure from which, at the risk of incurring huge economic damage, the EU countries joined the sanctions. The sanctions were also supported by the G7 states and some other countries that are partners of the US and the EU.

In mid-March 2014, after Russia, contrary to warnings, recognized the results of the Crimean referendum, supported the unilateral declaration of independence of the Republic of Crimea and accepted its proposal to join Russia, the United States and the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have implemented the first round of sanctions. These measures included asset freezes and visa restrictions for individuals on special lists, as well as a ban on companies from sanctioning countries from supporting business relationship with persons and organizations included in the lists. In addition to these restrictions, contacts and cooperation with Russia and Russian organizations in various fields were also curtailed.

Then the expansion of sanctions (April-May) was associated with the aggravation of the situation in the east of Ukraine. The organizers of the sanctions accused Russia of actions aimed at undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The next package of sanctions was associated with the crash of a Boeing 777 in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014, which, according to the leadership of a number of states, was caused by the actions of rebels supported by Russia.

In this way, main reason Russia’s actions during the crisis in Ukraine became the reason for imposing sanctions: the West considered that they threatened civil peace and the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The sanctions lists were expanded more than ten times more, with the new defendants being mainly state-owned companies and entire sectors of the Russian economy. The last time the EU expanded the sanctions lists was on February 16. Five citizens of Russia fell under the sanctions, including the singer and deputy Iosif Kobzon, 14 residents of the East of Ukraine and nine militias. On February 18, Canada imposed sanctions against Rosneft.

As a result, more than 150 people fell under the sanctions - officials, businessmen, politicians, military and journalists. Assets are frozen, transactions and the issuance of long-term loans to the largest banks with state participation are prohibited: Sberbank, VTB, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank and others. Supplies of equipment and technologies for the development of oil and gas fields have been banned in Russia, which, in fact, has suspended the modernization of the fuel and energy complex. Private companies have also joined the official bans. For example, ExxonMobil stopped 9 out of 10 projects in Russia.

Companies affected by the sanctions scientific institutes related to the defense industry. Suspended military cooperation between the US and the EU with Russia, including joint exercises, as well as restrictions on the export and import of weapons and defense industry products.

As a retaliatory measure, President Vladimir Putin banned the import of a number of food products from countries participating in sanctions against Russia.

If we analyze the sectoral structure of sanctions against Russia, we can find that they are directed against key ones, i.e. competitive sectors of the Russian economy: oil, gas, nuclear and military industries, as well as against Russian banking capital.

Since a huge share of Russia's exports is oriented to the European market, in practice the imposition of sanctions means ousting Russian companies from the European market.

Vectors of imposed sanctions in the oil industry :

· Sanctions against Russian oil companies and their subsidiaries, as well as auxiliary companies in the industry.

· A ban on the export of oil production and refining technologies to Russia.

· Refusal of joint projects in the oil sector and investment of promising projects.

The vectors of sanctions imposed in gas industry:

· Sanctions against Russian gas companies and their subsidiaries, as well as supporting companies in the industry.

Refusal of joint projects in gas industry and investing in promising projects.

The promotion of large business to foreign markets is most often associated with the promotion of banking capital to these markets. Strengthening positions Russian business in the European market was associated with the expansion of Russian banking capital to the European market, in order to support Russian export companies and the participation of Russian capital in large international investment projects. The financial reserves accumulated by the Russian Federation allowed Russian state and semi-state banks in the first years after the global financial crisis to begin acquiring foreign banking assets and expanding their branch network abroad. Moreover, many banks in Europe and the world found themselves in a difficult financial situation and were willingly sold.

The locomotives of the banking sector in Russia have become semi-state banks - OJSC Sberbank of Russia, OJSC VTB [Vneshtorgbank], OJSC Gazprombank and others.

Sberbank of Russia: So far, he has managed to master the markets of 20 countries. In addition to Russia, open direct representative offices in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany (Munich), China and India. Acquired assets in Switzerland - SLB; Austria - Volksbank International AG, with a branch network in Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine; Turkey - Denizbank, with a branch network in Turkey, Russia, Austria, Cyprus. It is the largest commercial bank in Russia and Europe.

Vneshtorgbank [VTB]: The second largest bank in Russia in terms of assets, operates in the financial market of many countries, has representative offices in Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Angola, Great Britain, Singapore, UAE, Germany, France, Serbia.

Vnesheconombank: Since 2007, it has been a state corporation, the purpose of which is to provide and attract financial resources for the implementation of large investment projects, support for exports and servicing external public debt. It has representative offices in many countries, participated in the financing of major infrastructure projects (construction of the Ford Sollers plant, reconstruction of Pulkovo airport, construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, support for projects and companies of Skolkovo, etc.).

Gazprombank: Industry bank, the third in Russia in terms of assets. Participates in the financing of major international projects in the oil and gas industry both within Russia and abroad [Europe, Asia]. In particular, it participates in the projects for the construction of the Blue Stream and Yamal-Europe gas pipelines, and in the development of the European GTS. It also serves companies in the engineering, chemical, nuclear and other industries. Represented in Russia, Switzerland, Armenia, Belarus, China, India, Mongolia.

Vectors of imposed sanctions in the banking industry :

· Freezing of Russian financial assets of individuals and legal entities.

· Disconnection of Russian banking structures from international payment systems.

· Reducing the client portfolio abroad.

· Restriction of access to investment projects.

· Restriction of access to external borrowings [credits].

· Restriction of financial freedom of Russian companies abroad.

· Other.

Countries that did not support sanctions against Russia [RF]: China, Brazil, India, South Africa.

Thus, all anti-Russian sanctions can be divided into two groups: political and financial and economic.

Russia's response to sanctions

The Russian response was asymmetrical - on August 6, Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a food embargo - a ban on the import of milk, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts from countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia. On August 20, lactose-free milk, dietary supplements, including vitamins and sports nutrition, fish fry and seed material for potatoes were removed from sanctions.

In the media, the embargo was assessed on the one hand as a chance Russian manufacturers agricultural products (the most common promise is to fill store shelves with quality and healthy products), on the other hand, as a factor that will lead to higher prices, because, despite investments in the agro-industrial complex, to sharply increase production in order to make up for imports (30% pork, 60% milk, etc.), producers cannot. In addition, many publicists "revived" the fears of empty shelves and the monotony of the assortment, forgotten since Soviet times, since sausages, cheeses and various delicacies were banned. The excited citizens were answered with a flood of notes in the federal media about cheese-making industries in Kostroma, Yakutia and Bryansk - where they mastered the technology of cheese production according to Italian recipes. There were also jokes about Belarusian salmon (Belarus has been processing Norwegian salmon for many years, the import of which was banned to Russia) and “black schemes” of food trade, for example, the import of goods to Russia through the countries of the Customs Union.

Consider the main retaliatory sanctions.

Sanctions	Status
Entry ban to a number of officials and members of the US Congress, as well as citizens of Canada, the EU, the US, Japan	Introduced since March 2014 For Japan since August 2014
Stepping up actions to create our own national payment system	March 27, 2014 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved the creation of a national payment system in Russia
Ban on the import of certain types of agricultural products, raw materials and food	Introduced for 1 year from August 6, 2014 by Decree No. 560
Restriction of government purchases of light industry goods from foreign suppliers. These measures apply to all states, with the exception of members of the Customs Union	The decision comes into force on September 1, 2014.
Restriction of state purchases of cars, special equipment assembled abroad.	Introduced since July 14, 2014

August 6, 2014 Ban on the import into the Russian Federation of agricultural products, raw materials and food, the country of origin of which is the state that has decided to impose economic sanctions on Russian legal entities and (or) individuals or acceded to such a decision:

♦ Meat and edible offal and products;

♦ Fish and seafood;

♦ Milk and dairy products;

♦ Vegetables, edible roots and tubers;

♦ Fruits and nuts;

♦ Prepared foods, including cheeses and cottage cheese.

The government of the Russian Federation excluded from the sanctions list:

♦ lactose-free milk;

♦ salmon and trout fry;

♦ seed potatoes, onions, hybrid sweet corn;

♦ biologically active additives.

Changes for operators of international payment systems (including VISA, Mastercard):

♦ Security contributions to the Central Bank, equal to two days' turnover;

♦ Penalties for:

Failure to make a contribution;

Blocking of bank cards of Russian credit institutions unilaterally.

You can avoid making a contribution in the following cases:

♦ Processing localization in Russia

♦ Obtaining the status of a nationally significant payment system

"On the establishment of a ban on the admission of light industry goods originating from foreign countries for the purpose of making purchases to meet federal needs."

The restrictive list includes: fabrics, textiles, ropes, nets, outerwear, overalls, pullovers, cardigans, stockings and socks, underwear, furs, leather, suitcases, shoes and soles.

Bypass the ban

♦ Possible only if there is no corresponding production in the countries of the Customs Union.

♦ It is necessary to obtain an opinion from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

"On the establishment of a ban on the admission of certain types of engineering goods originating from foreign countries for the purposes of procurement for state and municipal needs"

The ban applies to:

Vehicles of officials, public transport, as well as municipal and construction equipment.

Participation in tenders

Foreign manufacturers will have to:

♦ open production in Russia

♦ maintain the required level of production localization.

The level of localization will increase over the years. Now it is from 30 to 40% for various enterprises, and will have to reach 60-70% by 2018.

What conclusions can be drawn from the above.

“Much depends on the duration of the sanctions and on new targeted steps by the government to stimulate specific sectors of the economy.

While the situation is uncertain, I think that few investors and entrepreneurs will seriously invest in the development of production - rather, they will be engaged in schemes to circumvent restrictions.

“After the introduction of mutual sanctions, we decided to focus on working with the markets of the CIS members, primarily Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The adoption of sanctions has already had a negative impact on the Russian economy, as prices for euro- and dollar-dependent products began to rise due to the appreciation of currencies. Moreover, prices are rising for goods that were traditionally traded in the ruble zone. Negative dynamics is recorded throughout the year: a sharp increase in the cost of raw materials today has reached an unprecedented level of 16%”.

The United States, which does not agree with Russia's actions during the Ukrainian crisis, has imposed sanctions on high-ranking Russian politicians. The restrictions include, in particular, a ban on entry into the United States and the blocking of assets and property. The list includes 11 people, including Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev, State Duma deputies Elena Mizulina and Leonid Slutsky, and senator Andrey Klishas. The United States also imposed sanctions against Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov and Chairman of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian officials whom they consider guilty of "undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine." The list of officials against whom the EU imposed sanctions included State Duma deputies Leonid Slutsky, Sergey Mironov, Sergey Zheleznyak, senators Andrey Klishas, ​​Viktor Ozerov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Vladimir Dzhabarov, Evgeny Bushmin, Alexander Totoonov, Oleg Panteleev, commanders of the southern and western military districts of Colonel General Alexander Galkin and Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, as well as the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko. Sanctions were also imposed on Prime Minister of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Rustam Temirgaliev, Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov, Vice Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Sergei Tsekov, Advisor to the Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Yuri Zherebtsov, Mayor of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly, head of the Crimean Service the security of Petr Zima and the former commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky. There are 21 people on the list in total.

Canadian authorities have imposed economic sanctions and visa restrictions on 10 high-ranking representatives of Russia and Crimea. The list includes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Glazyev, Assistant to the Head of State Vladislav Surkov, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​as well as deputies Elena Mizulina and Leonid Slutsky and Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.

The American list was supplemented with the names of 19 more Russian officials, parliamentarians and businessmen. The list includes presidential aide Andrei Fursenko, head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov and his first deputy Alexei Gromov, leader of the Just Russia party Sergei Mironov, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, head of the GRU Igor Sergun, head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin and director of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov . Sanctions were also imposed on Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Zheleznyak and Presidential Affairs Manager Vladimir Kozhin, businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, the list includes members of the Federation Council Yevgeny Bushmin, Vladimir Dzhabarov, Viktor Ozerov, Oleg Panteleev, Nikolai Ryzhkov and Alexander Totoonov. Sanctions were also imposed against the bank JSC AB Rossiya. The US Treasury explained the inclusion of Russian businessmen in the sanctions list by the fact that they are all persons close to the President of Russia.

On March 21, EU leaders decided to move to the second level of sanctions against Russia "in view of the severity of the situation in Ukraine." The extended list includes 12 more citizens of Russia and Ukraine, including Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev, Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko. In addition, the list includes State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, deputy Elena Mizulina, presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, and director general of the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency Dmitry Kiselev. The list also includes Rear Admiral Alexander Nosatov, First Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral Valery Kulikov, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Mikhail Malyshev, head of the Crimean Central Election Commission, Valery Medvedev, head of the Sevastopol Electoral Commission, and Lieutenant General Igor Turchenyuk, deputy head of the Southern Military District.

On March 21, Canada added 14 more Russian officials to its sanctions list in connection with the events in Ukraine, as well as Rossiya Bank.

Swiss authorities have restricted financial transactions for 33 Russian officials included in the EU sanctions list.

The United States imposed sanctions on the Crimean company Chernomorneftegaz and Crimean officials. Mayor of Sevastopol Oleksiy Chaly, First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev, heads of the Crimean and Sevastopol electoral committees Mikhail Malyshev and Valery Medvedev, adviser to the Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Yuriy Zherebtsov, ex-head of the Crimean department of the Security Service of Ukraine Petr Zima and a member of the Russian Federation Council from Crimea were subjected to sanctions Sergei Tsekov.

Montenegro, Iceland, Albania, Norway and Ukraine joined the individual EU sanctions adopted on March 17 and extended on March 21.

On April 12, Canada imposed sanctions on the head of the election commission of Sevastopol, Valery Medvedev, and his colleague from the election commission of Crimea, Mikhail Malyshev, as well as on the oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz.

On April 28, the US authorities again expanded the sanctions list to include seven more Russian citizens and 17 companies. White House press secretary Jay Carney explained this by saying that Russia "did nothing to comply with the Geneva obligations." Carney also accused Moscow of involvement in the violence in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions affected Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, and the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin. The list also includes presidential envoy to the CFD Oleg Belaventsev, head of the FSO Yevgeny Murov, head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov and head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov.

On the same day, April 28, the decision to expand the sanctions list was made by the European Union, and on April 29 the names of those on the list were published. The EU expanded the sanctions list by another 15 people. It included Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the GRU Igor Sergun, Permanent Representative of the President of Russia in Crimea Oleg Belaventsev, Head of the Ministry for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, State Duma Vice Speaker Lyudmila Shvetsova, State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov , Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergey Menyailo, Senator in the Federation Council from Crimea and Sevastopol Olga Kovatidi, representative of the Luhansk militia German Prokopiev, People's Governor of the Lugansk region Valery Bolotov, leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Andrey Purgin and Denis Pushilin, Deputy Head of the Donbass People's Militia Sergey Tsyplakov, leader People's Defense of Donbass in Slavyansk Igor Strelkov.

Canada's sanctions list includes State Duma deputies Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Alexei Pushkov, First Deputy Head of the Kremlin Administration Vyacheslav Volodin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexander Babakov, presidential envoy to the Crimean Federal District Oleg Belaventsev, head of the FSO Yevgeny Murov , as well as the Rotenberg brothers. The list of companies includes Expobank and Rosenergobank.

Japan imposed additional sanctions against 23 government officials of the Russian Federation who could be involved in the violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine. The names of the officials were not released.

The Swiss authorities have expanded the list of persons subject to financial restrictions by 15 people in response to the expanded list of the EU.

The Prime Minister of Canada said that sanctions are being imposed against 16 Russian "subjects" and apply to the following Russian banks and legal entities: InvestCapitalBank, Sobinbank, Northern Sea Route Bank, Aquanika, LLC Avia Group, LLC Avia Nord Group, ZEST CJSC, Sakhatrans LLC, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Abros Investment Company LLC, Volga Group, Stroytransgaz Holding and its four subsidiaries.

The EU Foreign Affairs Council has included 13 more people on the list of EU sanctions against those responsible, in its opinion, for destabilizing the situation in Ukraine. The list includes the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin, the commander of the Airborne Forces Colonel-General of Russia Vladimir Shamanov and the head of the State Duma Committee on constitutional legislation and state building Vladimir Pligin. In addition, Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, Sevastopol prosecutor Igor Shevchenko, acting. Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea Petr Yarosh, acting Head of the Sevastopol Migration Service Oleg Kozyur. The EU also decided to freeze the assets of two companies from Sevastopol and Crimea - Feodosia and Chernomorneftegaz.

Canadian authorities have announced additional sanctions against six Russian citizens and six Ukrainian supporters of federalization. The list of sanctions from the Russian side included: Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Commander of the Armed Forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo, Vice Speakers of the State Duma Sergei Neverov and Lyudmila Shvetsova, Russian Minister for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, 1st member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive branch of the Republic of Crimea Olga Kovatidi.

The Swiss authorities have expanded the list of persons subject to financial and visa restrictions by 13 people in response to the expanded list of the EU.

Montenegro, Iceland, Albania, Liechtenstein and Norway have joined the implementation of the new EU sanctions lists.

Australia has imposed financial sanctions against 50 Russians and 11 companies because of the situation in Ukraine. Earlier, in March, the Australian authorities announced imminent sanctions against 12 Russian and Ukrainian officials. The Australian government has decided to extend sanctions to 38 more individuals and impose restrictions on 11 companies. The names of those included in the "black lists" were not indicated then.

Regarding Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Glazyev, Head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Deputies Elena Mizulina and Alexei Pushkov, Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitry Rogozin and Dmitry Kozak, aides to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, Vladimir Kozhin and Andrei Fursenko, the head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin and Alexei Gromov, acting. Head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov, businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Gennady Timchenko, head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, as well as a number of leaders of the unrecognized DPR and LPR. The list also includes the Bank of Russia, InvestCapitalBank, SMP Bank, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Avia Group Nord LLC, Stroytransgaz Group, Volga Group, Chernomorneftegaz, as well as other companies and individuals.

Canada has imposed additional economic sanctions and a ban on entry into the country for 11 citizens of the Russian Federation.

Washington synchronized its sanctions list with the European one. The United States imposed visa and financial restrictions on Russian State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov, Federal Minister for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, and the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic's Prime Minister Alexander Boroday, who were previously subject to EU sanctions. on the entire Donetsk and Lugansk republics and on the assistant to the President of Russia Igor Shchegolev. The US authorities have also imposed sanctions on a number of Russian defense and commodity companies. The sanctions list includes Almaz-Antey Concern, Uralvagonzavod, NPO Mashinostroeniya and several structures of Rostec: Kalashnikov Concerns (former Izhmash), Constellation, Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET), Bazalt and Konstruktorskoe instrumentation bureau. The largest Russian oil company Rosneft and Russia's largest independent gas producer Novatek, the oil terminal of Feodosia, as well as the Russian development bank Vnesheconombank and one of the country's largest commercial banks Gazprombank were under sanctions. Sanctions against Russian banks do not involve freezing assets, but a ban on receiving US loans for more than 90 days.

At their summit on July 16, they limited themselves to agreeing to expand the criteria for sanctions and only by the end of July to draw up a list of companies and individuals, including Russian ones, that will fall under targeted restrictive measures of the European Union.

Canada, following the United States, included a number of Russian defense and raw materials companies and banks in its sanctions list. Sanctions fell, in particular, on Gazprombank, Vnesheconombank and Russia's second-largest gas producer Novatek. The Canadian prime minister explained that the sanctions involve the cessation of lending to energy companies and financial institutions that were blacklisted.

15 names and 18 entities have been added to the EU sanctions list. Among them are FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Rashid Nurgaliev, member of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov, FSB officer Sergei Beseda and State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev . Among the companies are "Kerch Ferry", "Sevastopol Commercial Sea Port", "Kerch Commercial Sea Port", the state enterprise "Universal-Avia", the sanatorium "Nizhnyaya Oreanda", "Azov Distillery", the national agricultural production association "Massandra" , agricultural firm "Magarach" and the factory of sparkling wines "New World".

The US Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions against the Bank of Moscow, VTB and Rosselkhozbank, as well as the United Shipbuilding Corporation of the Russian Federation.

The EU has introduced new economic sanctions against Russia. The European Union has restricted access to the EU capital markets for Russian state-owned banks. These are Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank, and the state corporation Vnesheconombank, which are among the five largest credit institutions in the Russian Federation. , which cannot be exported for a number of projects in the Russian oil industry. It consists of 30 items, it includes, among other things, some types of pipes and drilling equipment. The restrictions included new contracts for the import and export of arms from the Russian Federation and for the sale of dual-use goods to Russia for the defense sector.

The sanctions list includes the Russian defense concern Almaz-Antey, the low-cost Dobrolet airline flying to Crimea, and the Russian National Commercial Bank. The list includes Alexei Gromov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, four Russian businessmen — Rossiya Bank shareholders Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov, businessmen Arkady Rotenberg and Konstantin Malofeev, as well as two representatives of self-proclaimed people's republics in eastern Ukraine. Restrictions on investments in Crimea have been approved.

The Swiss government has expanded the sanctions list in connection with Russia's position on Ukraine and added 26 citizens of Russia and Ukraine and 18 companies to it. The list, in particular, includes: Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Borodai, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

On the same day, it approved additional sanctions against 40 individuals and the Crimean companies Chernomorneftegaz and Feodosiya. Japan froze the assets of former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Denis Berezovsky, ex-Governor of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly, ex-head of the service security of Sevastopol Petr Zima, adviser to the speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Yuri Zherebtsov, senators from the Republic of Crimea Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi, head of the Republican Central Electoral Commission Mikhail Malyshev, head of the election commission of Sevastopol Valery Medvedev, governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo.

Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea Petr Yarosh, head of the Sevastopol department of the FMS Oleg Kozhura, Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, Sevastopol prosecutor Igor Shevchenko. The sanctions list also included the commander of the self-defense forces of the proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Strelkov (Girkin), the ataman of the All-Great Don Army, Nikolai Kozitsyn.

Canada has expanded its sanctions list against Russia to include 19 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as five Russian banks. Among the Russian banks included in the list: Bank of Moscow, Rosselkhozbank, Russian National Commercial Bank and VTB Bank. A number of Russian security officials fell under the Canadian sanctions, in particular, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, head of the 5th Directorate of the FSB Sergey Beseda, head of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kulishov, deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev, and State Duma Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev. In addition, the list included the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, presidential aide and ex-head of the Ministry of Communications Igor Shchegolev, Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev and shareholder of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov. The list also includes Crimean Interior Minister Sergei Abisov, one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed DPR Pavel Gubarev, his wife, DPR Foreign Minister Ekaterina Gubareva, speaker of the DPR Supreme Council Boris Litvinov and an employee of the LPR press service Oksana Chigrina.

In addition, several Crimean companies were included in the list: the Kerch commercial port and the Kerch ferry crossing, as well as the Massandra winery, the Novy Svet winery, the commercial port of Sevastopol, the Magarach National Institute of Grapes and Wine, the Universal- Avia". The list also includes the Russian airline Dobrolet and the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law "On Sanctions", which provides for the possibility of imposing more than 20 types of sanctions against Russia, including the termination of the transit of energy resources. the law was signed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, on September 12 the law came into force.

On September 1, Australia banned the supply of arms and equipment for the oil and gas sector to Russia, the access of Russian state banks to the Australian capital market, investment in or trade with Crimea. was expanded to 63 individuals and 21 companies and organizations. In addition, Australia suspended the supply of uranium to Russia. March 31, 2015.

The European Union has published a new sanctions list. Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom Neft fell under the EU sanctions. The EU has banned the supply of dual-use goods to nine companies in the Russian defense sector, in particular, the list includes Oboronprom, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Uralvagonzavod, and the Kalashnikov Concern.

European companies to provide Russian partners with exploration and production services for deep sea and arctic oil, as well as for shale oil projects.

The European Union has tightened access to loans of a number of state-owned banks of the Russian Federation and reduced the term of loans.

The new sanctions list includes State Duma deputies Svetlana Zhurova, Nikolai Levichev, Igor Lebedev, Ivan Melnikov, Alexander Babakov.

The United States blocked the assets of five Russian defense companies accessible to American jurisdiction. The sanctions list includes Almaz-Antey (one of the world's largest manufacturers of air defense systems), the Research Institute of Instrument Engineering (manufacturer of systems for combat aircraft and air defense systems), Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant, Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, as well as a company designated as "Research and production center in Dolgoprudny".

On access to the capital market for 6 Russian banks. The sanctions affect Sberbank, VTB and its subsidiary Bank of Moscow, Gazprombank, Russian Agricultural Bank, Vnesheconombank.

New US sanctions limit cooperation with Russian oil companies, including Gazprom Neft, Lukoil and Rosneft. In addition, the list includes Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Transneft, Rostec.

Canada announced the expansion of the list of sanctions against Russia. The new sanctions list includes Sberbank and five defense enterprises of the Russian Federation: the Research and Production Center in Dolgoprudny, the M.I. Kalinin Machine-Building Plant (MZiK), the Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant, and the Research Institute of Instrumentation named after V. V. Tikhomirov" (NIIP) and JSC "Marine Research Institute of Radio Electronics "Altair" (JSC "MNIIRE "Altair"). The list of persons who were banned from entering Canada, as well as possible assets were frozen, included Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yuri Sadovenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Dmitry Bulgakov, First Deputy General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Bogdanovsky and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov.

EU candidate countries Montenegro, Iceland and Albania, as well as Liechtenstein, Norway, members of the European Economic Area and Ukraine, joined the EU sanctions package against Russia on September 12.

The European Union included in the sanctions list of candidates for the November 2 elections of heads and parliaments of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and representatives of the leadership of the LPR and DPR. The organizations that fell under the sanctions were the public organizations of the DPR "Donetsk Republic" and "Free Donbass", from the LPR - "Peace to the Lugansk Region", "People's Union" and "Lugansk Economic Union". In total, the list includes 13 names and 5 public organizations. Those on the list are banned from entering the EU, and their assets in the EU are frozen.

The Japanese government has imposed sanctions on a number of individuals and organizations in the Donbass. In total, there are 26 people on the list, as well as 14 organizations.

US President Barack Obama has announced that he has signed a decree on new sanctions against Russia and the annexed Crimea. The decree prohibits new investments by US residents in the Crimean region of Ukraine, the import of goods, services, technologies into the US from Crimea, as well as the export, re-export, sale and supply of goods, services and technologies from the US or by persons residing in the US to the Crimean region. operating in Crimea, as well as financial institutions that directly or indirectly carry out transactions with Crimea.

Against 24 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as a number of companies. Among those under sanctions is Konstantin Malofeev's Marshall Capital Partners fund. Also on the list of sanctions were a number of leaders of the Crimea and Donbass, as well as the biker organization Night Wolves.

Canada added 11 more citizens of the Russian Federation to the sanctions list. It included 10 parliamentarians, including Vladimir Vasilyev, Vice Speaker of the State Duma and head of the United Russia faction, deputies Leonid Kalashnikov (KPRF), Igor Lebedev (LDPR), Oleg Lebedev (LDPR), Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Nikolai Levichev (" A Just Russia"), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov (KPRF), deputies Viktor Vodolatsky (United Russia), Svetlana Zhurova (United Russia) and Vladimir Nikitin (KPRF). In addition, the list includes Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobyov, as well as the head of the representative office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Russian Federation Andrey Rodkin. Thus, the number of individuals who fell under Canadian sanctions has reached 77 people. The new package of sanctions also provides for restrictions on the export of technologies that are used in the oil and gas industries.

Against the economy and tourism industry of Crimea. In particular, ships providing cruise services are prohibited from entering the ports of Sevastopol, Kerch, Yalta, Feodosia, Evpatoria, Chernomorsk and the port of Kamysh-Burun. In addition, the EU has expanded by more than six times the list of goods and technologies prohibited from deliveries to Crimea and for use in Crimea in the areas of transport, telecommunications, energy and exploration, extraction and production of oil, gas and minerals. More than 160 items were included in the list.

Due to US sanctions, two international payment systems - Visa and MasterCard - decided to suspend servicing Russian bank cards operating in Crimea.

The head of EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, confirmed the extension of individual sanctions against Russia and Donbass militias until September 2015.

Published a list of individual sanctions against persons whom the EU considers responsible for the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine.

The list includes 19 people, including Deputy Commander of the DPR militia Eduard Basurin, Russian singer, State Duma deputy and native of Donbass Iosif Kobzon, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, First Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin, as well as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces RF Andrey Kartapolov.

The list also includes a number of representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In particular, LPR Minister of Justice Alexander Shubin, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the LPR Sergey Litvin, Commander-in-Chief of the "People's Militia" of the LPR Sergey Ignatov, Finance Minister of the LPR Yevgeny Manuilov, Minister of Economic Development of the LPR Olga Besedina, acting. Prosecutor General of the LPR Zaur Ismailov, Minister of Justice of the DPR Ekaterina Filippova, Minister of Revenue and Duties of the DPR Alexander Timofeev and Minister of Communications of the DPR Viktor Yatsenko.

The list also includes the Cossack National Guard, whose commander, Nikolai Kozitsyn, was already on the sanctions list, the Sparta battalion and its commander Arseniy Pavlov, the Somali battalion and its commander Mikhail Tolstykh, the Zarya battalion, the defendant’s Ghost brigade the sanctions list of Alexei Mozgovoy, the Oplot battalion, the Kalmius battalion and the Death battalion. The sanctions also affected the commanders of the militia units Pavel Dremov and Alexei Milchakov.

Announced the introduction of new sanctions against 37 individuals and 17 organizations from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The black list of Canada from the Russian side included Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Anatoly Antonov and CEO of Rostec Corporation Sergey Chemezov, Russian biker Alexander Zaldostanov, deputy Valery Rashkin, singer and deputy Iosif Kobzon and journalist Dmitry Kiselev.

In addition, the list includes Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Andrei Kartapolov, Rear Admiral Valery Kulikov, Major General Alexei Naumets, Rear Admiral Alexander Nosatov and Lieutenant General Igor Turchenyuk.

Also, sanctions were imposed on the deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin, the first deputy chairman of the People's Council of the LPR Vladislav Deinego, as well as other representatives of the self-proclaimed republics.

In addition, the list includes the Cossack National Guard, the Sparta battalion and its leader Arseniy Pavlov, nicknamed Motorola, the Somali battalion and its commander Mikhail Tolstykh, nicknamed Givi, the Zarya battalion, the Ghost brigade, the Oplot battalion , battalion "Kalmius", battalion "Death". The sanctions also affected the commander of the Rusich unit, Alexei Milchakov, nicknamed Fritz, the Minister of Defense of the LPR, Oleg Bugrov, and other representatives of the militia.

The state oil company Rosneft is included in Canada's sanctions list, and sanctions have also been imposed on the public movement Novorossiya.

Extended the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014. Thus, all rounds of sanctions against Russia imposed in 2014, including the latest economic sanctions against Crimea from December 2014, are extended for a year.

In addition to the EU sanctions of 27 August 2014 against Russia, it also enforced restrictions adopted in December 2014 regarding a ban on trade with Crimea and Sevastopol. All foreign investments in the Crimea and Sevastopol are now prohibited, the previously existing ban on the export of certain products to this region has been expanded with new names. The sanctions legislation also added a list of 28 individuals and enterprises previously subject to EU sanctions with which Swiss entrepreneurs are prohibited from trading.

They introduced new sanctions against individuals and organizations involved, in their opinion, in the crisis in Ukraine. The list published by the US Treasury Department included, in particular, the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNKB), the Eurasian Youth Union, as well as 14 citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Among them are former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Secretary of the DPR Security Council Alexander Khodakovsky.

The EU Council's decision to extend until September 15, 2015 individual EU sanctions on Ukraine against citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation and Ukraine was published in the Official Journal of the EU. Sanctions imposed a year earlier were due to expire on March 15.

The list includes three citizens of the Russian Federation and 14 legal entities. The leaders of the Eurasian Youth Union Alexander Dugin, Pavel Kanishchev and Andrey Kovalenko were added to the list. In addition, the expansion of sanctions affected, in particular, the Marshall Capital Fund, the Night Wolves motorcycle club, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz and Transneft.

The list published on the website of the Canadian government also includes: the Eurasian Youth Union, JSC Sirius (produces optoelectronics for military and civilian use), JSC Tula Arms Plant, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, Khimkompozit company (produces materials for defense industry), arms manufacturer OAO High Precision Complexes, association Stankoinstrument (specializes in mechanical engineering) and OPK Oboronprom.

At the level of Foreign Ministers, he extended economic sanctions against the Russian Federation until January 31, 2016, approving the relevant amendments to the EU decision on sectoral restrictive measures against Russia.

They announced the expansion of sanctions. The list has grown by 11 individuals and 15 legal entities, including subsidiaries of VEB and Rosneft. The sanctions list has been expanded to 61 points with the justification "in connection with the events in Ukraine and activities in the Crimean region of Ukraine."

Among the legal entities that fell under the sanctions, there are Russian, Finnish, Cypriot companies. In particular, we are talking about the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and the Izhmash concern; ports of Evpatoria, Feodosiya, Kerch, Sevastopol, Yalta; company "Kerch Ferry".

The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Member States (Coreper) decided to extend until March 2016 individual sanctions against citizens of Russia and Ukraine, whom the EU considers responsible for undermining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. As of September 2015, the EU sanctions list includes 150 people, including Russian officials and representatives of the LPR and DPR, as well as 37 legal entities.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced sanctions against the Russian Federation for a period of one year. The sanctions list included 388 individuals and 105 legal entities, including citizens of 23 states. Ukrainian sanctions affected 28 Russian banks and 25 Russian airlines. Channel One, TV channels RTR-Planeta, Rossiya 24, NTV and three correspondents from the TASS news agency. In total, the sanctions also include seven bloggers from 17 countries, including from Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Israel, Spain, and Switzerland. Sanctions were also imposed on BBC journalists. The next day, given the significant public outcry and the strategic importance of relations with the European Union, Kiev lifted sanctions on journalists from Britain, Germany and Spain.

The largest Russian carriers, including Aeroflot (with all its subsidiaries), Transaero, and Sibir, which is being rehabilitated. , all of them are partially or completely prohibited from transiting resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine.

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine has imposed sanctions against several charitable foundations from Russia. The list of organizations to which personal special economic and other restrictive measures are applied includes, in particular, charitable foundations: Ekaterina Gubareva, Global Initiatives, New Martyrs and Confessors of Christ, the Don’t Leave Our Own Foundation and the Interregional Public Organization for the Promotion of Conservation national traditions and cultural heritage "Veche". The Security Service of Ukraine accuses these charitable foundations of funding the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.

It became known that the US Treasury has included FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in its sanctions list on Syria. Of the individuals on the list, three more people are citizens of Syria and Cyprus. the list includes six companies in Syria, Cyprus and Russia, including the Russian Financial Alliance bank, which, according to the Ministry of Finance, is associated with Ilyumzhinov. Sanctions have been imposed for contacts with the Syrian government and state institutions that the US has declared illegal.

The US Treasury published a sanctions list of 34 individuals and organizations from Russia and Ukraine, which, according to the department, assisted Russia in interfering in the affairs of Ukraine. Subsidiaries and non-state pension funds of Sberbank and VTB, as well as Novikombank, the development company GALS-Development and the online payment service Yandex-Money were added to the list of sectoral sanctions. In addition, the Crimean wineries Novy Svet, Massandra and Magarach, as well as representatives of Kalashnikov and the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, were subject to sanctions.

Russian retaliatory sanctions

On March 20, 2014, in response to sanctions against a number of Russian officials and deputies of the Federal Assembly, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of officials and members of the US Congress who are denied entry into the Russian Federation. The list includes nine people.

On March 24, in response to Canadian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of 13 Canadian officials, members of parliament and public figures of Canada who are denied entry to Russia.

The State Council of the Republic of Crimea published on the official website a list of persons whose stay is considered undesirable in the Republic of Crimea. The list includes 320 people, including leading Ukrainian politicians, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. On April 1, this list was replenished with 10 names, among them - the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko and the leader of the "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, said that Moscow has taken retaliatory measures to expand the sanctions lists from the United States, the EU and Canada, they are in many ways mirrored. At the same time, Russia will not publish the names of specific individuals against whom it imposes sanctions in response to the sanctions lists of Western countries. According to the Foreign Ministry, the people on the "stop list" will find out that they are on the Russian "black list" when they cross the Russian border.

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov imposed sanctions against US President Barack Obama, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. Kadyrov instructed to freeze their bank accounts and any assets, the listed politicians were banned from entering the Chechen Republic.

For a year, it restricted the import of a number of goods from countries that imposed sanctions against it.

On August 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the application of certain special economic measures to ensure security. The corresponding list includes beef, pork, fruits, poultry, cheeses and dairy products, nuts and other products. The List of agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs, the country of origin of which is the United States of America, the countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia and the Kingdom of Norway, has been approved. Later, goods that, for one reason or another, are difficult for Russia to replace, were excluded from the list.

On August 11, the government of the Russian Federation limited government purchases of foreign light industry goods. According to the list of goods, foreign fabrics, outerwear and overalls, leather clothing, underwear, footwear, fur products and others are not allowed for purchases that are not related to the state defense order. The restriction does not apply to goods produced in the territory of Belarus and Kazakhstan and goods not produced in the Russian Federation.

Japanese Ambassador to the Russian Federation Chikahito Harada was handed a list of Japanese citizens who are restricted from entering Russia in response to Tokyo sanctions.

The Izvestiya newspaper, citing sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, reported that over 200 politicians and officials from the EU and the US are included in the list of foreign citizens who may be banned from entering the Russian Federation. This list is a mirror image of similar blacklists of the European Union and NATO countries. The first place in the number of such citizens is occupied by the United States - over 60 people. The list includes Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Caroline Atkinson, US Assistants Daniel Pfeiffer and Benjamin Rhodes, US Congressional Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, Senators Mary Landrew, John McCain.

The EU Delegation in Moscow has received a list of citizens of EU countries who are banned from entering Russia. The document (as of May 26, 2015) contains 89 names, including about 20 current and 10 former members of the European Parliament, current and former heads of intelligence services in Britain and the Baltic Sea countries, a number of British, German, Polish and Estonian military leaders, and also deputy head of the Romanian state-owned company Transgaz. . The list includes representatives of 17 out of 27 EU countries. The fifth part of the list is occupied by representatives of Poland (18 names), followed by Britain (9), Sweden, Estonia (8 each), Germany, Lithuania (7 each), Latvia and Romania (5 each).

A decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published on the extension for a year of special economic measures against the West, introduced by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 6, 2014. The response period has been extended from 6 August 2015 to 5 August 2016.

It extended the food embargo, introduced as a response to the sanctions, to Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Ukraine, and the latter with a delay - the ban on the import of its products will come into force only if Kiev applies the economic part of the association agreement with the European Union.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The topic of sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia is one of the most discussed in the political space today.

Some experts believe that sanctions are detrimental to our economy, and their extension will lead to extremely negative consequences. Others, on the contrary, are full of optimism and are sure that sanctions help our economy get rid of external dependence. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle.

What are sanctions?

Sanctions are usually understood as certain restrictions imposed on any types of activities, companies, organizations or individuals. The obstacles created can be comprehensive in nature or relate to individual areas.

Thus, in trade, sanctions may apply to certain types of goods or completely prohibit import or export relations with a certain state. It is believed that this is an effective method of pressure necessary to force individual countries to comply with international norms. In practice, this is one of the ways to interfere in the internal affairs of states, which is used to achieve the US and its allies their own geopolitical goals.

Reasons for imposing sanctions on the Russian Federation

The main reason for the emergence of sanctions against Russia by Western countries is an independent foreign policy conducted by our country in the last decade. Its most striking expression was the reunification of Crimea with the rest of Russia and the support provided to the unrecognized republics of Donbass.

The West believes that Russia did not have the right to protect its interests in Crimea and the interests of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass. The West is accustomed to using this privilege on its own and does not want to put up with such a vivid example of opposition to its policies, fearing that other countries will also try to become more independent in defending their own interests.

Economic anti-Russian sanctions

The list of economic sanctions imposed by the United States, the countries of the British Commonwealth and the European Union is quite large. But its most sensitive points are the restriction of investment in a number of sectors of the Russian economy, as well as a ban on the supply of equipment for these industries. These are energy, telecommunications, the oil and gas industry and the extraction of minerals, transport and infrastructure. In addition, a boycott was announced by the above countries and organizations to Crimean companies and Russian enterprises operating in Crimea.

Greatest Negative influence the Russian economy was banned from investing in the financial sector, as well as from providing loans to five leading Russian banks. It is this factor, combined with the unprecedented fall in international prices, that has become the main reason for such a sharp depreciation of the Russian ruble.


Subsequently, economic sanctions against the Russian Federation were introduced by Ukraine and some European countries that are not members of the EU.

Political anti-Russian sanctions

The sanctions policy pursued by the United States against Russia was supported by the countries of the British Commonwealth and the European Union. It consists in limiting the presence of representatives of the Russian Federation in a number of international organizations controlled by the West. Russia's participation in PACE, the informal "club of leading states of the world" G8, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and some other organizations was suspended.

In addition, personal bans were imposed on a number of Russian politicians from entering states that supported the sanctions, and the accounts of these individuals in banks in the United States, Europe, and the British Commonwealth were blocked. The sanctions affected military sphere: military cooperation with Western countries was suspended, previously concluded contracts for the supply of military equipment and equipment were canceled.

Russian response

The Russian government in response to the imposition of sanctions by Western countries:

— banned a number of politicians and statesmen USA and other countries entry into the territory of the Russian Federation;

— accelerated work on the commissioning of its own payment system;

- launched an import substitution program, thanks to which new enterprises have appeared and continue to appear in the country that produce high-tech products that were previously purchased abroad;

- introduced a number of agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs from the countries of the anti-Russian sanctions list for the import to Russia;

- limited government purchases in Western countries of light industry goods.

Effects of sanctions

According to many experts, the policy of sanctions has a negative impact not only on Russia, but also on European countries.

For the Russian Federation, the result of economic sanctions was a noticeable drop in the standard of living of the population, caused by a rise in the price of imported goods and an increase in the cost of lending, the stagnation of the economy and an increased level of inflation. At the same time, the positive impact of sanctions on a number of industries cannot be denied. Thus, due to the departure of European competitors from the market, the country's agriculture has been able to significantly increase the volume of agricultural products over the past two years.

The logical consequence of the sanctions was the gradual reorientation of Russia towards cooperation with Asian countries, primarily with China. In the political sphere, the sanctions policy of the West turned out to be a complete failure, since the hopes for the “isolation” of Russia were absolutely not justified.

For European countries, the sanctions resulted in tangible losses in the engineering, automotive and electronics industries, agriculture and a number of other industries. The tourism sector of European countries has also suffered significantly, because due to the depreciation of the ruble, Russians today prefer to rest not abroad, but within the country.


The EU countries most affected by the sanctions were Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Finland. Ukraine announced the loss of its economy 15 billion dollars due to restrictions imposed by Russia. Despite very sensitive losses, the EU countries cannot abandon anti-Russian sanctions, as they are deprived of the opportunity to pursue an economic policy independent of the United States.